{"id":1119,"date":"2011-02-22T20:27:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T01:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2013-09-14T14:39:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:39:40","slug":"planned-parenthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=1119","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it hard to believe that the House of Representatives cut funding tor Planned Parenthood.\u00a0 What were they thinking?\u00a0 Surely the most important thing human beings do is raise the next generation.\u00a0 Having more children than you can adequately care for is not going to give any of them a good start.
\nIt should be obvious that parents, especially challenged parents \u2014 single mothers, poor or disabled parents, etc. \u2014 need all the help they can get.\u00a0 In Freakonomics<\/a> the authors, Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, look at a number of situations in which actually looking at the facts disproves what the general public thinks.\u00a0 For example, they wonder about the crime wave that didn\u2019t happen.\u00a0 A rise in the crime rate was predicted for the 1990\u2019s.\u00a0 Governments responded by building more prisons and putting more police on the streets, and this is the generally accepted reason there was less crime.\u00a0 But when the authors looked at the actual statistics they found that the crime rate was already going down BEFORE the extra police and prisons had been put in place.\u00a0 So what could possibly be the REAL cause?\u00a0 The authors searched around and came up with this answer: Roe vs. Wade happened in 1973.\u00a0 This means that all those babies, that would have been born to poor, unwed, drug-addicted mothers, did not grow up to be criminals in the 90\u2019s.\u00a0 I don\u2019t advocate abortion as a strategy for reducing crime, I would rather see education and easily available birth control to prevent children being born who will grow up to lead violent miserable lives.\u00a0 And I ask those who oppose abortion: are you willing to take on these disadvantaged babies and give them a decent upbringing?
\nThe other study that I think about was one done by Karlen Lyons-Ruth.\u00a0 Bessel VanderKolk<\/a> talked about it in a workshop at Kripalu<\/a> in August of 2007.\u00a0 My notes say \u201cKarlen Lyons-Ruth<\/a> did a study of home visits, in which a home visitor went to young, unwed mothers, and gave them guidance in taking care of their babies.\u00a0 The single most effective mental health intervention is to help mothers learn to care for their infants.\u201d I got the impression that they had done a 20 year study of the infants whose mothers were visited compared with a control group of infants whose mothers were not visited, and that the amount of violent behavior exhibited by both groups was very different.\u00a0 The \u201cvisited\u201d infants in general were better adjusted than the control group.\u00a0 I tried to find the study on the internet, but could only find a recent study<\/a> where the outcomes were the amount of difficulty entering Kindergarten.\u00a0 Still, we can pretty confidently predict, that without some intervention, a kid that\u2019s difficult in Kindergarten will continue to have difficulties.
\nVanderKolk expressed his disgust at our government which would of course not fund any such program, but would build more prisons instead.\u00a0 He told us that South Africa was funding such a program.\u00a0 He said they won\u2019t see the results for 20 years, but at least they care about the future and are willing to take action.<\/p>\n

Bessel Van der Kolk will be presenting a program at Kripalu next July<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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