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Thoughts on Mothers Day 2015
It’s not about the flowers and cards…it’s about the kids.
Would Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Mother’s day Proclamation from 1870 recognize the institution of Mother’s day if she were alive today, or any of the Suffragist women who fought for our rights? Have brunches and flower deliveries masked the very nature of the Historical Event? – When Mothers Marched for Children’s Rights and their Rights as Mothers to direct policy and protect their belief in a nurtured life - the work of Motherhood. Do flowers mean there’s no reason to march?
As mothers we truly appreciate the hugs and kisses and attention for the daily work of caring for our children and our family. But this Mothers Day Holiday feels like it almost has become holding space to praise mothers instead of joining the work of Mothers to create a safer world for our children, almost an event lacking meaning and history that has been commercialized to obscure the focus of the very nature of our work and mothers themselves. How can we reclaim our place in society and make what has been marginalized and made irrelevant, important and significant again?
The landscape of motherhood has changed dramatically over the years but children and their human development has remained the same and they need their moms and moms cannot be replaced. This work of Motherhood has been undervalued for too long and there has come a movement, a museum, a rising, a momentum and a demand to bring Motherhood back in Vogue in America.
How can we make the invisible, the work of motherhood, visible again and values once cherished that served to protect our young, important again in the lives of Americans today?
As a mothers turned activists, we are full up on praise once a year for the thankless domestic chores and would rather turn our attention on Mothers Work, to raise healthy children in a Safer Nation.
History has a way of repeating itself and at the end of the 21st century Mothers are marching again. Mothers march: for peace, for gun control, clean air and food supply, equal pray, maternity and family leave, LGBT rights, juvenile justice, poverty issues, courts and police brutality, Children’s Justice -protection for our children-and rights of All Mothers, that’s mothers work.
While the United States is a First World Nation it shares the problems of Third World Countries. We share one of the most pressing Social Justice issues of our time these Human Rights Issues and Violations to our Constitution have endangered our American Way of Life. After years of research we have recognized an immuring Human Rights issue- is it possible that we become a Motherless America? Where’s my Motherhood.gov?
One well kept secret in America are children who are removed from safe Mothers after child custody court cases through biased governmental protocols that Court Order children into a lifetime of Trauma. Such events have impacted our Nations health and well being. The impact of Child Abuse is considered a pandemic. Yet it remains a secret. 1 in 4 Adults Report having been assaulted in Childhood. Mothers who leave dangerous relationships to protect children are then punished by a two tiered system of justice that is funded through a heavy lobbying group ‘the fatherhood initiative’. This Initiative has helped to shape public policy and social engineering through health and human service Policies better known as Fatherhood.gov. This Federal funding is literally shaping families and communities and promoting fathering over mothering with financial incentives in the courts and county programs in the states.
In an article in Family Share author Janie McQueen says, “Kids need their Moms” and we agree.
When the pendulum swings it swings. Over time Politically Correct, public policies created pathways for fathers to share in custody, even in cases of rape or kidnapping. These policies quickly turned the key to switching the care giving of children from the mothers who had primary attachment to fathers avoiding child support or seeking power and control through domestic violence. Courts funded through fatherhood funding now have a financial incentive to choose ‘Fathering’ over ‘Mothering’. The opportunity to include good fathers in the lives of their children have been overshadowed by the abuse of the system that rewards bullies who are trying not to pay child support or who are trying to use the court to victimize, creating the new Dead Beat Dad, who punishes women by holding children hostage, and now forces mothers to pay child support.
By funding programs like ‘Be a Dad today” our US government using this tool for socially engineer for generations to come is essentially teaching people that fathers can replace mothers and “Fathers know best.” This propaganda is funded through Health and Human Service Policies within fatherhood.gov, which fails to provide the same PR campaign for Motherhood.
This national crisis is bringing mothers together to address dangerous gender bias policies funded by our tax dollars, with bias courts that abuse with impunity. Policy directors for Battered Women and children are addressing the bias and myth that are pervasive in our society that interfere with justice and serve the archaic patriarchal system interfering at all levels of our nations public policies.
From California to Maine, Mothers in America are demonstrating and holding Silent Vigils to grieve together the unimaginable events of loss of custody and contact of the children they have birthed. In four decades 2 Million children are being raised without their mothers. Mothers and Children separated from the ones they love, suffer, and long to be reunited. Mothers will be gathering from across the nation, to mourn the loss and pray for their children this Mother’s Day weekend.
With Motherly Devotion and their hearts nearly on the ground mothers cry “Love will win”!
The strength of these women fighting this uphill battle for their rights is a testament to their love and devotion. Fighting against the odds in the current political system that disregards the rights of mothers and children, they march, they testify, and return to Washington. It’s hard to imagine that a humane society, sophisticated, and mature choose fathers over mothers to raise our children.
When The American Humane Society has addressed The State of America’s Children research study to gauge American adults’ perceptions of threats, fears, or issues facing children and youth . What were very potent about this study are the key differences between men and women and how they perceive the real threat to our children. From Public policies that once protected the institution and bond between mother and child have been removed and replaced by standards that best serve the state and the gender policies that have come to reward abusive men after divorce we have created not only motives for dangerous and abusive men but the very protection for fathers rights over protective mothers. Family law practices endangering the lives of children and punish mothers who complain about the injustice of these practices. Can you imagine that the US government is engaged in discriminatory practices which fuel war on women and children? The courts are villanize these protective mothers and pathologize mothers. The “prescription” for children reporting abuse is placing mother on supervised visitation or no contact orders? C’mon! Really?!
Until, we have equal programs and funding to support the relationship between mothers and their children and protect the institution of Motherhood, we will be at the mercy of the financial incentives that are ruining the lives of our children, mothers, and entire families.
While it is true that women made many steps towards autonomy in the US since the 1800’s what we still strive to create it protection for ourselves and our children, these, being the same concerns as the Activists Mothers who came before us. Since history does have a way of repeating it’s self if we are not alert, mothers have taken to the streets again. What can we do to better recognize motherhood? We can support Mom by joining their efforts. By supporting “I want my motherhood.gov!” we can Bring Motherhood back! Let’s do it for the kids, let’s do for the mothers, let’s do it for the families, and let’s do it for a better future for the Good Old USA!
It’s not about the flowers and cards…it’s about the kids.
Would Julia Ward Howe, the author of the Mother’s day Proclamation from 1870 recognize the institution of Mother’s day if she were alive today, or any of the Suffragist women who fought for our rights? Have brunches and flower deliveries masked the very nature of the Historical Event? – When Mothers Marched for Children’s Rights and their Rights as Mothers to direct policy and protect their belief in a nurtured life - the work of Motherhood. Do flowers mean there’s no reason to march?
As mothers we truly appreciate the hugs and kisses and attention for the daily work of caring for our children and our family. But this Mothers Day Holiday feels like it almost has become holding space to praise mothers instead of joining the work of Mothers to create a safer world for our children, almost an event lacking meaning and history that has been commercialized to obscure the focus of the very nature of our work and mothers themselves. How can we reclaim our place in society and make what has been marginalized and made irrelevant, important and significant again?
The landscape of motherhood has changed dramatically over the years but children and their human development has remained the same and they need their moms and moms cannot be replaced. This work of Motherhood has been undervalued for too long and there has come a movement, a museum, a rising, a momentum and a demand to bring Motherhood back in Vogue in America.
How can we make the invisible, the work of motherhood, visible again and values once cherished that served to protect our young, important again in the lives of Americans today?
As a mothers turned activists, we are full up on praise once a year for the thankless domestic chores and would rather turn our attention on Mothers Work, to raise healthy children in a Safer Nation.
History has a way of repeating itself and at the end of the 21st century Mothers are marching again. Mothers march: for peace, for gun control, clean air and food supply, equal pray, maternity and family leave, LGBT rights, juvenile justice, poverty issues, courts and police brutality, Children’s Justice -protection for our children-and rights of All Mothers, that’s mothers work.
While the United States is a First World Nation it shares the problems of Third World Countries. We share one of the most pressing Social Justice issues of our time these Human Rights Issues and Violations to our Constitution have endangered our American Way of Life. After years of research we have recognized an immuring Human Rights issue- is it possible that we become a Motherless America? Where’s my Motherhood.gov?
One well kept secret in America are children who are removed from safe Mothers after child custody court cases through biased governmental protocols that Court Order children into a lifetime of Trauma. Such events have impacted our Nations health and well being. The impact of Child Abuse is considered a pandemic. Yet it remains a secret. 1 in 4 Adults Report having been assaulted in Childhood. Mothers who leave dangerous relationships to protect children are then punished by a two tiered system of justice that is funded through a heavy lobbying group ‘the fatherhood initiative’. This Initiative has helped to shape public policy and social engineering through health and human service Policies better known as Fatherhood.gov. This Federal funding is literally shaping families and communities and promoting fathering over mothering with financial incentives in the courts and county programs in the states.
In an article in Family Share author Janie McQueen says, “Kids need their Moms” and we agree.
When the pendulum swings it swings. Over time Politically Correct, public policies created pathways for fathers to share in custody, even in cases of rape or kidnapping. These policies quickly turned the key to switching the care giving of children from the mothers who had primary attachment to fathers avoiding child support or seeking power and control through domestic violence. Courts funded through fatherhood funding now have a financial incentive to choose ‘Fathering’ over ‘Mothering’. The opportunity to include good fathers in the lives of their children have been overshadowed by the abuse of the system that rewards bullies who are trying not to pay child support or who are trying to use the court to victimize, creating the new Dead Beat Dad, who punishes women by holding children hostage, and now forces mothers to pay child support.
By funding programs like ‘Be a Dad today” our US government using this tool for socially engineer for generations to come is essentially teaching people that fathers can replace mothers and “Fathers know best.” This propaganda is funded through Health and Human Service Policies within fatherhood.gov, which fails to provide the same PR campaign for Motherhood.
This national crisis is bringing mothers together to address dangerous gender bias policies funded by our tax dollars, with bias courts that abuse with impunity. Policy directors for Battered Women and children are addressing the bias and myth that are pervasive in our society that interfere with justice and serve the archaic patriarchal system interfering at all levels of our nations public policies.
From California to Maine, Mothers in America are demonstrating and holding Silent Vigils to grieve together the unimaginable events of loss of custody and contact of the children they have birthed. In four decades 2 Million children are being raised without their mothers. Mothers and Children separated from the ones they love, suffer, and long to be reunited. Mothers will be gathering from across the nation, to mourn the loss and pray for their children this Mother’s Day weekend.
With Motherly Devotion and their hearts nearly on the ground mothers cry “Love will win”!
The strength of these women fighting this uphill battle for their rights is a testament to their love and devotion. Fighting against the odds in the current political system that disregards the rights of mothers and children, they march, they testify, and return to Washington. It’s hard to imagine that a humane society, sophisticated, and mature choose fathers over mothers to raise our children.
When The American Humane Society has addressed The State of America’s Children research study to gauge American adults’ perceptions of threats, fears, or issues facing children and youth . What were very potent about this study are the key differences between men and women and how they perceive the real threat to our children. From Public policies that once protected the institution and bond between mother and child have been removed and replaced by standards that best serve the state and the gender policies that have come to reward abusive men after divorce we have created not only motives for dangerous and abusive men but the very protection for fathers rights over protective mothers. Family law practices endangering the lives of children and punish mothers who complain about the injustice of these practices. Can you imagine that the US government is engaged in discriminatory practices which fuel war on women and children? The courts are villanize these protective mothers and pathologize mothers. The “prescription” for children reporting abuse is placing mother on supervised visitation or no contact orders? C’mon! Really?!
Until, we have equal programs and funding to support the relationship between mothers and their children and protect the institution of Motherhood, we will be at the mercy of the financial incentives that are ruining the lives of our children, mothers, and entire families.
While it is true that women made many steps towards autonomy in the US since the 1800’s what we still strive to create it protection for ourselves and our children, these, being the same concerns as the Activists Mothers who came before us. Since history does have a way of repeating it’s self if we are not alert, mothers have taken to the streets again. What can we do to better recognize motherhood? We can support Mom by joining their efforts. By supporting “I want my motherhood.gov!” we can Bring Motherhood back! Let’s do it for the kids, let’s do for the mothers, let’s do it for the families, and let’s do it for a better future for the Good Old USA!