I’m more than a little surprised that no one had sent me this link before. But TPM Reader JL just sent me a link to what certainly appears to be the archived (www.archive.org) personal website of Monica Goodling from her days at Regent University.
Alas, most of it is pretty mundane — a page with links to her favorite political sites ( complete with a quote from John Ashcroft), her resume, some stuff about her friends and family. But you may want to glance at her essay “The Devaluation of Human Life: Neglecting America’s Kids” which examines how America’s children are being destroyed by America’s culture of social permissiveness and individualism run amok. It starts …
America in the nineties is the largest and most dedicated throw-away society in the world. We toss as fast as we can use, fast food wrappers, diapers, plastic plates, napkins, even Yugos. But children? One grimaces at the thought of society discarding children like a Big Mac wrapper, but a look into the reality of America’s children portrays a grisly picture indeed. While rapidly escalating abuse makes the eleven o’clock news regularly, even more insidious is the lack of care, love, and attention that threaten the lives of many more of our youth. For millions of children, neglect is the one constant element in their sad lives. It seems children just are not worth very much anymore.
All across America millions of parents seem to feel that their children are not worth the time it takes to raise them–the time it takes to shower them with love, listen with interest to their thoughts, nurture values of trust, honesty, fairness, joy, and justice. Regretfully, the children do not even know that their experience is abnormal, and that if they had just been born in the beginning of the century instead of at the end, chances are that their lives would have been much different. This paper will examine the devaluation of America’s children and propose solutions to the various components of the problem.
You can read the rest here.
