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GIORDANO: Apply “Highest Female Standards” In America’s Family Court System
By Alice Giordano
If Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is going to apply the “highest male standards” to the physical demands of serving active duty in the military, then the same strict standards should apply in the family courts where perhaps one of the most under covered pandemics plaguing the nation comes from judges who have decided men can and should be — mom.
That’s right, for all the wrong reasons, those illustrious bottom-feeding black robed judges who won political appointments to play Russian roulette with children, hand primary even sole custody of very young children including some still breast feeding over to fathers across the nation.
It’s ironic since Hegseth is looking for real men in uniform ….like the old days when…real men in uniform were raised by their mommies.
But don’t look for old-fashion party politics in this because it couldn’t be any more or for that matter less bipartisan or partisan if it tried.
It’s peddled at the surface as being a movement in the spirit of the modern “shared parenting” narrative so well engineered by father right’s rights groups whose collective disdain for paying child support is more obvious than a night gown slip hanging below a mini skirt.
Just like Hegseth’s “male standards” that insistently follow the natural biology of which sex is physically stronger (not to be confused with other types of strengths), female standards should be the sole criteria to being mom and role of rearing and raising the children.
Are there abusive mothers, sadly, yes. But that argument is kinda like the nine guys who meet for coffee and lament that men are just as much victims of domestic violence and rape.
Same goes with those pitiful tales of weekend or Disney Dads. A closer look at those well-planted sobriquets tend to tell a far different story with, of course, some exceptions.
Good fathers should never be deprived of time with their kids.
And women as Hegseth has said should always be allowed to serve in the military, just not on the frontlines, as in you know, traditional gender roles.
Afterall similar in theory — if God meant for Dad to be mom, he would go through 30 years of monthly hell akin to an ice scraper excoriating your innards, routinely terrified to wear white pants, and have mammary glands to be ogled on a daily basis by every Tom, Dick, and Harry.
In keeping with the reality of gender differences, “he” would also experience the pains of coning, ectopic pregnancies, fish-gutting C-sections, or natural births that should really be categorized as squeezing a watermelon through a straw competition.
Unfortunately, with everything far more important than fixing this well-ignored rampant anti-mom scourge swirling around us across headlines, on podcasts, and social media, the nightmare going on under all our noses of children being forced to live with abusive fathers, has barely become fodder for half-hearted bill rubber stamped inexpedient to legislate.
Even investigative reports by mainstream media have done little to put the madness of erasing mom at the tip of everyone’s tongue.
Things like the DOJ-commissioned Saunders Report that detailed this disturbing trend back in 2011 and awareness campaigns by groups like The National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) have come and gone. And we as a nation have barely blinked.
Instead you have been told that young single women need to get married and have children in order to live happily ever after.
A narrative that quite literally, even to “traditional, conservative” women, is indeed all too often nothing more than a fairytale.
The late Charlie Kirk,a good man by my standards, had it right in theory, but sadly, was too optimistic or perhaps cloistered by his politically-high brow status, to fully comprehend the reality that not all husbands turn into noble fathers when their wives become pregnant.
When he said “lead” your family to men — he didn’t understand that all some of them heard is — control and abuse them.
And worse, that the “system” does not do the right thing by the mom, when it works out that way. It’s a well perpetrated myth that mothers are always awarded custody of the kids.
As a reporter, a conservative one to boot, I have lost count of the shedload of cases of abusive fathers, including dangerous filicidal ones — haphazardly awarded custody of the kids by judges who seem to see mom as an equal to the family dog.
To those screaming that mothers have killed their children too….yes I know. But I defer to my earlier nine guys meeting for coffee truism in response.
In fact — according to Center for Judicial Excellence, a group that super tries to keep gender out of its campaign to reform custody laws, a child who is the subject of a custody matter dies every six days with a staggering 70 percent of them killed by their father, 17 percent by their mother and 13 percent by a non-parent guardian.
Let’s not even get started on the women killed in epidemic proportions at the hands of a man, who yes — is most definitely physically stronger than a woman.
You want gender-based standards, then have them across the board. Gather up all the generals, lawmakers, and judges and put them on notice that the job of mom belongs to women only.
Alice Giordano is currently a reporter for Newsmax Magazine and a daily commentator for Newsweek’s Topic of the Day. Formerly of The Epoch Times, The Boston Globe, and Associated Press, Alice has also been a contributor to The Federalist and The American Thinker.
