June 5, 2005
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Father's Day
I'm very surprised by the number of single mothers who pass through our hospital. Many of the mothers have several kids with different fathers, none of whom participate in their children's lives. Often, while she's in the hospital, a boyfriend will stop by -- probably another new father-to-be, who will pass out of her life in another month or so. A couple of my colleagues have walked in on these couples busy making yet another little one, even after the mother has just finished giving birth to a baby from another father. Like bunnies, people are.
There's a 15-year old who is constantly in the hospital for pyelonephritis. I asked her if she's still having sex with her previous boyfriend who gave her chlamydia. She told me, "No, I don't see him anymore." I was relieved until she said, "He's in prison now." So she's seeing someone new now, which is why she is in the hospital again. I guess, to her credit, with all the UTI's she's getting, she doesn't need Depo-Provera because she probably has PID.
I honestly don't understand why women let themselves be used this way.
And for some reason, women think burquas are more humiliating than sexual liberation.
I admire women who do not let themselves be used in this way. The responsibility of a woman is ingrained from the first moment you realize you need to remember what time of the month it is. Men have no compunction to be responsible at all, unless it was ingrained in them from their parents.
Too many men I know are still living with their parents, without regard to the fact that they may one day need to support themselves financially when their parents are dead.
I applaud all those men who stick by their families and support them by their fidelity, honor, and hard work.
Father's Day Father's Day is the 3rd Sunday in June. The idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. Sonora's father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father's Day celebration in Spokane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Roses are the Father's Day flowers, red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.
For some reason, Hollywood likes to glorify single motherhood. However, in their usual ignorance of reality, they fail to acknowledge that most single mothers do not have the income of a celebrity, and are in fact, on Medicaid.
For the economically unaware, Medicaid is supported by taxes, something that typical Hollywood heroes hire financial agents to help them avoid in favor of their paltry contributions to help pets avoid testicular cancer or cows from being eaten.
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