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Dr. Warren Farrell's Ten Theses Toward a 'Reformation' of the
Democratic Party
Social Solutions that Create Financial Solutions
1. Equal Father and Mother Involvement, Especially if there is
Divorce. Worldwide research reported in Father and Child Reunion
makes clear that children of divorce do best when they have equal
time with both mom and dad. The savings are billions less for
prisons, education, special education, social services, and unwed
teenage pregnancies... When moms know that anything other than 50-50
parenting will cost a court fight, there will be less taxpayer money
spent subsidizing fights in courts and more balanced children at
home.
2. Universal prenatal care. An anxious or undernourished mom means
a child damaged for life. Nine months of prevention saves ninety
years of intervention.
3. A Men's Birth Control Pill and a Paternity Fraud Bill. A men's
pill means fewer children who are not wanted by their dad because the
dad felt tricked into fatherhood; a paternity fraud bill means fewer
men falsely named "dad." Both will reduce the child support
enforcement bureaucracy that currently, at great expense, chases down
mens who are hiding from the fatherhood into which they felt tricked.
4. Intensive Communication Training Taught from First Grade, with
Simultaneous Retraining of Parents. Both families and businesses are
destroyed by poor communication--our inability to handle criticism is
our human Achilles' heel. It is more cost-effective to prevent
divorce and business inefficiency than to repair it--to communicate
rather than litigate.
5. Schools with More Male Teachers--Men Who are as Responsive to
the Needs of our Sons as our Daughters. For most of the 20th Century
fewer women than men graduated from high school and college; now the
reverse is true. But we have thousands of programs and scholarships
exclusively for women as if they were the sex in crisis. Boys go from
mother-only homes to female-only classrooms, and then, without
positive male role models, we wonder why they join gangs. The result
is a "boys' crisis." The costs are emotional and financial: increases
in our sons committing suicides, leading to Columbines, suffering
from ADD, doing worse than girls socially, emotionally, physically
and in all subjects except math. Our neglect of the "boys' crisis"
costs California billions to "pick up the pieces" by hiring more
teachers per class, special education, and special schools. The
solution begins with confronting our double standard: when girls do
worse, we blame the schools; when boys do worse, we blame the boys.
6. Prioritize Long-term and Win-win Economic Solutions. Caring
about labor means caring about businesses that create the jobs for
labor. Which means creating incentives that attract business and
jobs, not taxes that drive them away. Work safety standards need
stronger enforcement (to counter the easier profits of neglect), but
workers' comp needs caps. The fiercest attack must be on tax
loopholes such as offshore banking that indirectly increases the
taxes of the honest taxpayer. California must increase its tax
incentives for alternative energy development, and the development of
long-term pacts with Canada that has 40% of the world's fresh water
supply.
7. Update California's Institutions to Reflect the Shift from the
"Women's Crisis" of the 20th Century to the "Men's Crisis" of the
21st Century. Today men die sooner of all 15 leading causes of death;
our sons' suicide rates are increasing even as our daughters' are
decreasing. These gaps are magnified by Commissions on the Status of
Women, and by Offices of Women's Health, even as we neglect
equivalent studies for men. In California's universities, Women's
Studies without Men's Studies create a hostile environment for men
that keep men away from the social sciences. (See The Myth of Male
Power and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say for full
documentation.)
8. Empower our Daughters with Long-Term Female Empowerment rather
than Short-term Female Victim Power. The Women Industry from
Diversity to Domestic Violence, from Affirmative Action to Women's
Studies, from Family Court to Social Workersóis invested in the
magnification of women's status as victim. The woman who portrays
herself as a victim gets power. Thus Female Victim Power. The
dismantling of the Women Industry means billions of reduced costs,
and thousands of our daughters being self-empowered rather than
dependent on victim power.
9. Discourage the Government-as-Substitute-Husband. When the state
of California offers a mom more than the dad can provide if she does
not marry the dad, it bribes the mom to "marry" the governmentóthe
state turns itself into the Government-as-Substitute Husband. We now
know that children from poorer families living with both mom and dad
do better emotionally and educationally than children from wealthier
families without dad. (See Father and Child Reunion.) The
bureaucracies and social workers that oversee WIC, welfare, food
stamps, housing subsidies and the host of substitute dads wastes
money that could better be spent on dad involvement. Money is no
substitute for daddy.
10. Recognize How Our Neglect of Reforms 1-9, and especially our
Neglect of Fathers and Men, has had a Disproportionate Impact on
Working Class and Minority Communities. Ironically and tragically,
the problems these reforms address have had a disproportionately
negative impact on the very constituencies -- African-Americans,
Native Americans and Latinas/os, the poor, the less educated -- about
whom Democrats care deeply. Subsidized prenatal care is crucial to
poor women; the combination of Government-as-Substitute-Husband and
the disenfranchisement of fathers after divorce has destroyed poor
families, and especially African-American families. The Democratic
Party has unwittingly supported dependency as if it were afraid that
a less dependent constituency would vote Republican.
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Dr. Warren Farrell's Ten Theses Toward a 'Reformation' of the Democratic Party Social Solutions that Create Financial Solutions 1. Equal Father and Mother Involvement, Especially if there is Divorce. Worldwide research reported in Father and Child Reunion makes clear that children of divorce do best when they have equal time with both mom and dad. The savings are billions less for prisons, education, special education, social services, and unwed teenage pregnancies... When moms know that anything other than 50-50 parenting will cost a court fight, there will be less taxpayer money spent subsidizing fights in courts and more balanced children at home. 2. Universal prenatal care. An anxious or undernourished mom means a child damaged for life. Nine months of prevention saves ninety years of intervention. 3. A Men's Birth Control Pill and a Paternity Fraud Bill. A men's pill means fewer children who are not wanted by their dad because the dad felt tricked into fatherhood; a paternity fraud bill means fewer men falsely named "dad." Both will reduce the child support enforcement bureaucracy that currently, at great expense, chases down mens who are hiding from the fatherhood into which they felt tricked. 4. Intensive Communication Training Taught from First Grade, with Simultaneous Retraining of Parents. Both families and businesses are destroyed by poor communication--our inability to handle criticism is our human Achilles' heel. It is more cost-effective to prevent divorce and business inefficiency than to repair it--to communicate rather than litigate. 5. Schools with More Male Teachers--Men Who are as Responsive to the Needs of our Sons as our Daughters. For most of the 20th Century fewer women than men graduated from high school and college; now the reverse is true. But we have thousands of programs and scholarships exclusively for women as if they were the sex in crisis. Boys go from mother-only homes to female-only classrooms, and then, without positive male role models, we wonder why they join gangs. The result is a "boys' crisis." The costs are emotional and financial: increases in our sons committing suicides, leading to Columbines, suffering from ADD, doing worse than girls socially, emotionally, physically and in all subjects except math. Our neglect of the "boys' crisis" costs California billions to "pick up the pieces" by hiring more teachers per class, special education, and special schools. The solution begins with confronting our double standard: when girls do worse, we blame the schools; when boys do worse, we blame the boys. 6. Prioritize Long-term and Win-win Economic Solutions. Caring about labor means caring about businesses that create the jobs for labor. Which means creating incentives that attract business and jobs, not taxes that drive them away. Work safety standards need stronger enforcement (to counter the easier profits of neglect), but workers' comp needs caps. The fiercest attack must be on tax loopholes such as offshore banking that indirectly increases the taxes of the honest taxpayer. California must increase its tax incentives for alternative energy development, and the development of long-term pacts with Canada that has 40% of the world's fresh water supply. 7. Update California's Institutions to Reflect the Shift from the "Women's Crisis" of the 20th Century to the "Men's Crisis" of the 21st Century. Today men die sooner of all 15 leading causes of death; our sons' suicide rates are increasing even as our daughters' are decreasing. These gaps are magnified by Commissions on the Status of Women, and by Offices of Women's Health, even as we neglect equivalent studies for men. In California's universities, Women's Studies without Men's Studies create a hostile environment for men that keep men away from the social sciences. (See The Myth of Male Power and Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say for full documentation.) 8. Empower our Daughters with Long-Term Female Empowerment rather than Short-term Female Victim Power. The Women Industry from Diversity to Domestic Violence, from Affirmative Action to Women's Studies, from Family Court to Social Workersóis invested in the magnification of women's status as victim. The woman who portrays herself as a victim gets power. Thus Female Victim Power. The dismantling of the Women Industry means billions of reduced costs, and thousands of our daughters being self-empowered rather than dependent on victim power. 9. Discourage the Government-as-Substitute-Husband. When the state of California offers a mom more than the dad can provide if she does not marry the dad, it bribes the mom to "marry" the governmentóthe state turns itself into the Government-as-Substitute Husband. We now know that children from poorer families living with both mom and dad do better emotionally and educationally than children from wealthier families without dad. (See Father and Child Reunion.) The bureaucracies and social workers that oversee WIC, welfare, food stamps, housing subsidies and the host of substitute dads wastes money that could better be spent on dad involvement. Money is no substitute for daddy. 10. Recognize How Our Neglect of Reforms 1-9, and especially our Neglect of Fathers and Men, has had a Disproportionate Impact on Working Class and Minority Communities. Ironically and tragically, the problems these reforms address have had a disproportionately negative impact on the very constituencies -- African-Americans, Native Americans and Latinas/os, the poor, the less educated -- about whom Democrats care deeply. Subsidized prenatal care is crucial to poor women; the combination of Government-as-Substitute-Husband and the disenfranchisement of fathers after divorce has destroyed poor families, and especially African-American families. The Democratic Party has unwittingly supported dependency as if it were afraid that a less dependent constituency would vote Republican.
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Donald Cameron
Amateur At Large
Dundas, Ontario, Canada
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Thanks Don. Looks much nicer. :)
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think nothing of it :-)}
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Donald Cameron
Amateur At Large
Dundas, Ontario, Canada
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I admit it. 5 years ago I considered myself a Democrat. But eventually I realized all the beliefs I thought I shared with the democrats were things they were only giving lip service to; like protecting the environment, representing labor and small businesses, strong public schools in all neighborhoods, and others. Worse still, I discovered what many others had known for a long time. What they really did care about and were willing to put energy into was special interest groups, primarily those which sought to impede on the civil rights of "majorities" and men. Certainly these "liberal" protectors of "civil rights" didn't give a damn about my civil rights complaints, after all I come from the same stock as the "oppressors".
Finally, someone is publicly telling the Democrats that their attitudes have driven men away. For the first time ever Democrats may even ask themselves "Are the reasons men don't vote for us related to our own actions?" I doubt this will change them, but as one of those men who was driven out of that party its nice to hear someone tell them that.
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by Anonymous User on Friday September 05, @01:50AM EST (#5)
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I'm with you Hombre.
No one rails harder against the Dem's. than I, and I voted for Bill Clinton twice. "Never more saith Raymond," at least not till they do a major policy shift in the way they treat men.
Opps, come to think of it, that's what Dr. Farrell (a Dem) is doing and that's why I'm voting for him. Hummmm, Hey Dem's, can you hear me now?
Like a lot of people these days I guess I'm really an independent. This is what comes of having an educated and informed populace.
Sincerely, Ray
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by Anonymous User on Friday September 05, @01:41AM EST (#4)
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As a full blooded German who was born in America, and who has never been to Germany (that makes me a full blooded American), and a member of the Lutheran church, I am proud of what Dr. Farrell is doing here in California.
Feminist groups go around these days, even to the churches trying to worm their version of feminism into churches. When I saw this happening at the church I go to I confronted my Pastor, showed him a coin from W.W.II and said, "At what point is grace and excuse for an acquiescence to evil?"
The German churches acquiesced to the political agenda of Adolph H. prior to W.W.II and largely did not oppose him. Most of the Lutherans in the W.W.II church forgot Luther's example of standing up against perceived corruption’s and wrongs in institutions of the church, or institutions of government, and challenging them to account for themselves.
At what point today, I asked my Pastor, is an acquiescence to the evil feminist agenda and excuse for the church to bash men and destroy families in the name of the politically correct agenda. I've spent a lot of time working with my pastor and judging by the way I see him giving sermons these days, I'd say I've influenced him to some significant degree.
I'm sure that Warren's "theses" are less to do with theology and more to do with politics, but it is apparent that he is confronting an institution "Democratic Party Policy" that has become morally and ethically bankrupt in the way that it deals with half of it's constituency (men). I applaud Dr. Farrell's courage and conviction to be so bold as to make this badly needed statement in defense of the many men whose lives are being ruined daily in California by an unjust feminist policy coming from the feminist wing of the Democratic party.
Yes, beware the factions that you let creep into your midst, whether you are a church or a government. What was the coin I showed to my Pastor? It was a 5 reichmarc coin of the Potsdam Garrison Church with a big Christian cross on top of it. It had a date of 1933, and on each side of the church steeple was a swastika.
I have no doubt that we will in time look back on the atrocities of the feminist movement, that is active in California today, with the same revulsion that we look at that coin and shudder.
California just issued a proclamation or some such referring to the eugenics programs that were active in California in the 1930's and referred to them as abhorrent pseudo-science. Many mentally ill people were sterilized against their will under these programs. In time, I believe a large part of Women's Studies and the feminist agenda will come to be labeled as the abhorrent pseudo-science that it is for the inhuman way that it has treated the men of this generation.
Go Warren, and God speed every blow of your hammer nailing those theses to the door. Again, just my opinion.
Sincerely, Ray
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Hey guy, I'm Lutheran too! What branch do you fellowship with? ELCA? LCMS? Other?
My membership is with an ELCA church. Although the denomination as a whole is a little too liberal for my tastes, my local church is doctrinally pretty conservative.
"Existence exists. A is A." -Ayn Rand
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by Anonymous User on Friday September 05, @12:37PM EST (#10)
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"What branch"
Missouri synod, the conservative one.
Believe me, when it comes to the "feminist agenda" they are like a bunch of country bumpkins at a pick pocket convention. No offense to anyone from the country. It's a great life and I often miss it.
Getting back to Luther, he certainly had his human weaknesses, but it could never be argued that he did not wrestle with his conscience in trying to do what was right. ...and not saying that he always did the right thing.
Men issues are unpopular issues so it is encouraging to see someone take a Luther like stance, draw a line and say, "Enough, I've had it with all the male bashing and gender dishonesty of the G-fems! It's time for a reformation of a badly corrupted system! Let's talk about it."
Ray
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at least for me. That's just really freakin' cool. Most of the time, nobody can spot the incredible historical significance of the 95 theses, much less re-enact them for their own cause - and in my opinion, it was a very good comparison. The church of that time was trying to tell the peopels the way things were, were the way they had to be - because they said so, and only they could research it and tell you so. Ol' Martin went against that, showing proof things weren't 'that way.' As Dr. Farell has done/is planning to do. Cool.
[go ahead and point out the inaccuracies, have fun]
PS. so it's happened? how'd it go?
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Well, you're going to have to be a little patient because 10:15 Pacific time isn't for another half hour yet. I'll certainly keep you updated as information comes in. :)
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>Well, you're going to have to be a little >patient because 10:15 Pacific time isn't for >another half hour yet. I'll certainly keep you >updated as information comes in. :)
oh, now you want everything. ;)
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by Anonymous User on Friday September 05, @12:47PM EST (#12)
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Wow! I just looked at the clock and it said 10:10 A.M. Warren has the hammer in his hand (or perhaps a stapler). History is being made.
I was at the Capitol a while back so I wonder if he is putting them on the West doors, which aren't open to the public but are historically restored or on the South doors which is where I entered, and seem to be the main public entrance? No doubt there are other entrances.
Perhaps he'll use Scotch tape. Whatever he uses I hope he's getting a lot of press on this. I wouldn't mind having a photo of this to put on a T-shirt.
"Democrats tear down your walls against men!"
Ray
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