CBS Urged To Drop Tebows’ Super Bowl Ad: University of Florida QB Tim Tebow and mother will appear in a 30 second ad during the Super Bowl with the message “celebrate family, celebrate life.” Many people are upset with CBS saying that the commercial is an advocacy ad about pro life. Read here and find out why. (NPR)
Parental Control glitch gives kids access to App Store porn: Not paranoid enough that your child is looking at porn on their iphone/itouch? There’s and app for that. (Arstechnica)
U.S. teen pregnancy rate up after 10-year decline: How are you teaching your kids about sex and pregnancy? (Reuters)
Shared (Not Divided) Parenting: Would you rather divide or share responsibilities? (NYTimes)
New Economics of Marriage: The Rise of Wives: What are the perks of education, marriage, and duel income? Money! (Pew)
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The Pro-Life Ad:
While I whole heartedly disagree with the hardcore “anti-abortion” establishment, their ad (from what I can gather) is about CHOOSING to NOT have an abortion. I don’t believe any person or organization is really pro-[i]abortion[/i]. Pro-CHOICE is the term, and it should always be addressed as such. I think it’s important to keep the idiots from stating you really think people SHOULD have abortions. If you don’t believe in abortion, don’t have one. That’s your choice. (And Yes, I believe the father’s should have a say, albeit, it’s a tough call, ’cause the kid lives in her.)
Those opposed to the “Celebrate Life” ad, simply because it comes from hardcore anti-abortionists, should STFU and simply develop their own ad about life… This is my personal slogan regarding the issue… “LIFE. What a wonderful choice.”(TM-licensing check better be big if you use it!- just sayin’) CBS couldn’t complain, because it’s about LIFE. The anti-abortionists can’t really complain either, because it’s about celebrating life, just like their ad.
People are dumb. Plain and simple.
Shared parenting:
If your [i]fighting[/i] about chores, you’re doin’ it wrong. They gotta get done. If you feel you are “above” certain chores for any reason, you’d best be pulling your weight elsewhere. PLEASE let my wife get a job that pays so well I can stay at home. You can bet she’d come home to no dishes, clean, folded, put away laundry, AND dinner prep in progress. Unfortunately, we both gotta work. We come home to the same house/chores/kiddo. She does this, I do that, and the world keeps rotating. Ain’t no thang. Can I have just 10% of the money spent on all this “sharing” research? I bet I could stay home a couple of years and clean house. I’d even wear an apron. (Though it’d for sure have skulls and flames on it.)
/end rambling
Carry on. Thanks for the venue to ramble on, DadLabs.
I apologize for the blatant use of your, instead of you’re, and then proper usage in the same freakin’ sentence… (can’t edit to fix it…) Sorry. Neurosis.
I agree with Nik, what a surprise.
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I am pro-choice, as is the government that decides what happens, so I’m winning. I can not imagine going through such a loss in my life, but am very supportive of those that have had to make that choice. I think that the problem with the way the ProLifers present is that I am wrong, no matter what. (Of course, I believe that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, so I’m really not trying to pick up brownie points in their books anyways…)
My wife and I split duties pretty well – which began WAY before Abby was born. I would never have chosen to marry someone who expected to do all of the “chores” and would not ever be goaded into being the only one that does it, either. I’m making dinner tonight, but only after dusting and vacuuming so that it’s one less thing to do this weekend…
I’m both pro-choice and pro-life. Because nobody is pro-abortion… nobody goes out and gets pregnant just so they can have an abortion.
I think the correct term for the people who are usually called “pro-life” is “anti-choice.” Just about everyone I know is pro-life.
Trust women!!
My understanding is that you can say whatever you want, right? Pretty much? If you want to pay a couple of mil to say it to lots of people during a football game, also fine. Advocacy is fine. People have sacrificed a good deal for that idea. What I want to see is an ad featuring a woman who was thinking about having an abortion because she was not able to adequately care for the child, didn’t, and the kid grew up to be a child abusing pervert. Isn’t that the flip side of this Tebow ad? And who is to say that Tebow will ultimately live a worthy life? Isn’t mom afraid of jinxing it?
The other thing that had not crossed my mind until talking with my wife about this last night was that it’s going to highlight a woman who violated doctors recommendations, which was okay in her case, but what about the woman for whom that means a very different outcome.
And good point, Clay – shouldn’t children with lesser “accomplishments” be valued as well?
Excellent point Clay. But an aborted life never has the [i]chance[/i] to become the pervert, or the doc who cures cancer.
I don’t buy the “unable to care for a child” reason for EVER having an abortion. There are THOUSANDS of caring families who want to adopt. If you don’t want the child, I guarantee you there is someone who does. Heck, my wife wants to adopt every cute lil’ CAT she sees on the local shelter’s tv commercials… I can only imagine how many babies we’d have if we had the means. :-*
Also an excellent point Rob. Doctors are experts, and I believe she got lucky. I’m happy for her, but yea, it could have taken a much darker turn for her.
And again I say, it is damn good to be a [b]man[/b].