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The Resolution below is the limit of Senatorial cruelty -- attempting to turn father's day into a radical feminist military exercise for public torture of the 60% of American fathers who have been thrown out of their families, prevented from being fathers by the system they built, which is specifically set up to peel fathers away from their families, deny their fatherhood, and order them to support two households.
With this Resolution, the Senate has adopted Mussolini's style of political behavior -- pretending to help the proletariat while actively blaming it and destroying it.
This is sexual terrorism of the most reprehensible sort. The Senate should recieve an immediate, continuing, and unrelenting political excoriation for this sort of hate legislation.
No matter what else your Father's Day event includes, let it start with demonstrations at every local Senate office IMMEDIATELY, at every Senate campaign stop, to every Senate phone line in Washington, and to every newspaper in America.
106th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. RES. 322
Encouraging and promoting greater involvement of fathers in their children's lives and designating June 18, 2000, as `National Responsible Father's Day'.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 13, 2000
Mr. BAYH (for himself, Mr. DOMENICI, Mr. ABRAHAM, Mr. AKAKA, Mr. ASHCROFT, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. BOND, Mr. BREAUX, Mr. BROWNBACK, Mr. L. CHAFEE, Mr. DODD, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. GORTON, Mr. GRAHAM, Mr. GRAMM, Mr. GRAMS, Mr. GREGG, Mr. INHOFE, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. KERREY, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. LIEBERMAN, Mr. MURKOWSKI, Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire, Mr. STEVENS, Mr. THURMOND, and Mr. VOINOVICH) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to
RESOLUTION
Encouraging and promoting greater involvement of fathers in their children's lives and designating June 18, 2000, as `National Responsible Father's Day'.
Whereas 40 percent of children who live in households without a father have not seen their father in at least 1 year and 50 percent of such children have never visited their father's home;
Whereas approximately 50 percent of all children born in the United States spend at least 1/2 of their childhood in a family without a father figure;
Whereas nearly 20 percent of children in grades 6 through 12 report that they have not had a meaningful conversation with even 1 parent in over a month;
Whereas 3 out of 4 adolescents report that `they do not have adults in their lives that model positive behaviors';
Whereas many of the United States leading experts on family and child development agree that it is in the best interest of both children and the United States to encourage more two-parent, father-involved families to form and endure;
Whereas it is important to promote responsible fatherhood and encourage loving and healthy relationships between parents and their children in order to increase the chance that children will have two caring parents to help them grow up healthy and secure and not to-
- denigrate the standing or parenting efforts of single mothers, whose efforts are heroic;
- lessen the protection of children from abusive parents;
- cause women to remain in or enter into abusive relationships; or
- compromise the health or safety of a custodial parent;
Whereas children who are apart from their biological father are, in comparison to other children-
- 5 times more likely to live in poverty; and
- more likely to-
- bring weapons and drugs into the classroom;
- commit crime;
- drop out of school;
- be abused;
- commit suicide;
- abuse alcohol or drugs; and
- become pregnant as teenagers;
Whereas the Federal Government spends billions of dollars to address these social ills and very little to address the causes of such social ills;
Whereas violent criminals are overwhelmingly males who grew up without fathers;
Whereas the number of children living with only a mother increased from just over 5,000,000 in 1960, to 17,000,000 in 1999, and between 1981 and 1991 the percentage of children living with only 1 parent increased from 19 percent to 25 percent;
Whereas between 20 percent and 30 percent of families in poverty are headed by women who have suffered domestic violence during the past year and between 40 percent and 60 percent of women with children who receive welfare were abused at some time in their life;
Whereas millions of single mothers in the United States are heroically struggling to raise their children in safe, loving environments;
Whereas responsible fatherhood should always recognize and promote values of nonviolence;
Whereas child support is an important means by which a parent can take financial responsibility for a child and emotional support is an important means by which a parent can take social responsibility for a child;
Whereas children learn by example, community programs that help mold young men into positive role models for their children need to be encouraged;
Whereas promoting responsible fatherhood is not meant to diminish the parenting efforts of single mothers but rather to increase the likelihood that children will have 2 caring parents to help them grow up in loving environments; and
Whereas Congress has begun to take notice of this issue with legislation introduced in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to address the epidemic of fatherlessness: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That the Senate-
- recognizes the need to encourage active involvement of fathers in the rearing and development of their children;
- recognizes that while there are millions of fathers who serve as a wonderful caring parent for their children, there are children on Father's Day who will have no one to celebrate with;
- urges fathers to participate in their children's lives both financially and emotionally;
- encourages fathers to devote time, energy, and resources to their children;
- urges fathers to understand the level of responsibility required when fathering a child and to fulfill that responsibility;
- is committed to assist absent fathers become more responsible and engaged in their children's lives;
- designates June 18, 2000, as `National Responsible Father's Day';
- calls upon fathers around the country to use the day to reconnect and rededicate themselves to their children's lives, to spend `National Responsible Father's Day' with their children, and to express their love and support for their children; and
- requests that the President issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe `National Responsible Father's Day' with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
END
Source: PDF Page from the U.S. House of Representatives Daily Digest site for June 13, 2000.
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