<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The District Attorney should charge Sen. <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>Grothman's</SPAN> parents with child abuse. The evidence is overwhelming that he <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>received</SPAN></SPAN> no love from them and many blows to the head as a child. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">One the bright side of this proposed Republican leadership legislation, it returns Wisconsin's electoral votes back firmly in the Obama column. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV><SPAN>Courtesy of The <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>Chicagoist</SPAN> (Chicago, Illinois) at:</SPAN></DIV>
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<H1 style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 10px; LINE-HEIGHT: 30px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; MARGIN: 0px; OUTLINE-COLOR: ; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: ff-meta-web-pro-1, ff-meta-web-pro-2, sans-serif; BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; COLOR: rgb(26,26,26); FONT-SIZE: 24px; VERTICAL-ALIGN: baseline; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; FONT-WEIGHT: 400; PADDING-TOP: 0px">Wisconsin Lawmaker Introduces Law To Classify Single Parenthood As Child Abuse</H1></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN>Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN> (R-West Bend) has introduced a bill demonizing single parents by classifying them as child abusers.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Senate Bill 507 specifically requires "the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>nonmarital</SPAN> parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>A third of Wisconsin parents are single parents, but this law affects even more than that. The way the law refers to "<SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>nonmarital</SPAN> parenthood" also makes this applicable to non-married couples, including same-sex couples. S.B. 507 reads:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>----------</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 2. Promote statewide educational and public awareness campaigns and
materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the problems of child abuse and neglect. In promoting those campaigns and materials, the board shall emphasize <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>nonmarital</SPAN> parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statutes is amended to read: 48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize <SPAN id=misspell-6 class=mark>nonmarital</SPAN> parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>----------</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-7 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN> isn't just some fringe nut-job. He's the assistant majority leader and a staunch ally of Gov. Scott Walker.
Unlike Walker, <SPAN id=misspell-8 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN> is not up for recall because activists were unable to get enough signatures. State Rep. Donald <SPAN id=misspell-9 class=mark>Pridemore</SPAN> (R-Hartford) co-sponsored the bill. (He is not up for recall either.)</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN> is not a fan of welfare policies. In a <SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>flyer</SPAN> detailing his family policies (embedded at the bottom of this post), he says, "The Left and the social welfare establishment want children born out of wedlock because they are far more likely to be dependent on the government." He touched on those issues after introducing SB507 last week. The Cap Times writes:</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"I guess as long as this state is going to fund a group called the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, at least that group could use the money that they have to publicize
something that's politically incorrect, but I think has to be said in our society," <SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN> said at a public hearing on the bill last week.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Noting that 41 percent of children born in the U.S. last year were born to single parents, <SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN> said: "It's a very politically difficult thing to deal with because over time you're having more and more families that are not old-fashioned families. There are even people who make fun of old-fashioned families."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>State Rep. Chris Taylor (D-Madison) said this bill is an assault on women. "What this bill does is call out and chastise women who have babies and are unmarried," she told The Cap Times. Human Development and Family Studies Professor Dave Riley told The Badger Herald that family type has far less impact than the family process and that research shows that "leaving
a conflictual marriage actually improves parent-child relationships."</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>SB507 is now with the Senate Public Health committee, and The Cap Times says it's not likely to get a committee vote, since the committee chair Pam Galloway (R-<SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>Wausau</SPAN>) is facing a close recall election.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>And here is <SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>Grothman's</SPAN> stance on families, wherein he explains "How The United States and the State of Wisconsin are Working to Encourage Single-Motherhood and Discouraging Children in 2-Parent Families."</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Wisconsin Senate Bill 507</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/proposals/sb507</DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV><SPAN class=yiv249418181Apple-style-span>Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn <SPAN id=misspell-16 class=mark>Grothman</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN></SPAN>It kinda makes ya wonder if state Sen. <SPAN id=misspell-18 class=mark>Rothman's</SPAN> parents ever ran away from home, huh?<BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN><SPAN id=misspell-19 class=mark>Seeya</SPAN> round town, Moscow.</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>Tom Hansen</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Moscow, Idaho</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>"If not us, who?</SPAN><BR><SPAN>If not now, when?"</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN>- Unknown</SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR><SPAN></SPAN><BR></DIV>
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