Marriage Works Ads??

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Registered: 11-22-2006
Marriage Works Ads??
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Mon, 03-31-2008 - 12:30pm
I am getting really ticked off every time I see these ads at the busstops here in town. I looked up the website and they claim it is all to help prevent teen pregnancy but the ads say things like "Married people earn more money....MARRIAGE WORKS" or "children with married parents earn better grades.....MARRIAGE WORKS"
wth is this all about?
Then I heard a segment on a morning show this morning that in the last segment really pressed about how kids worry enough about their parents breaking up and if they have parents who are also not married, they worry even more because they have to defend their parents decision at school with their peers. Really? I dont believe there are really kids at my DS's school that are on the playground saying SYB and I are a joke because we havent tied the knot. And shouldnt we be reinforcing the behaviors and emotions tht go into making a relationship last instead of focusing on a piece of paper. Kids every day see people who are clearly married in public, rings on, fighting or bashing one another in some subtle or not so subtle way. Why not accept that not every one is going to be married and start teaching kids how to be happy in a relationship, work toward it being longterm and give them the skills to handle it?
Sorry but I just saw another ad on the way home and it has really got under my skin to think there is this campaign now all over the city -
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Mon, 03-31-2008 - 1:51pm

These ads hit a nerve with me too.

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Registered: 08-10-2007
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 1:54pm

I wholeheartedly agree with you.

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Registered: 10-10-2007
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 2:14pm

Wasn't

April

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Registered: 11-22-2006
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 2:40pm

I am still pissed - just saw another one driving my kid home from school because he wasnt feeling well. (not sick enough to cancel pizza and movie with grandpa at our house though....hmmmm...lol) The whole idea that they are going to say that children with married parents get better grades is infuriating. My kid gets great grades at a very difficult school and there are kids in his class darn near failing with two parents at home and a nanny and an au pair to boot. When will America start accepting different kinds of families? What about gay parents - can they get married now in the states where these huge billboards are? Um. no! ACH. There should be soooo much more emphasis on how hard marriage and parenting really is - not this immense push to get married so that your kids will get better grades and you will earn more money. Sure I understand that his ultimate goal is to prevent teenage pregnancy but what the public will read and understand is exactly what the billboards say - Get married, earn more money/get married=better grades for your kids. I hate the quotes from this guy too - he seems really pompous.
http://www.metroweekly.com/gauge/?ak=1462
http://www.urbanitebaltimore.com/sub.cfm?issueID=39&sectionID=4&articleID=461
The second link shows a billboard for those of you who havent seen them.

Ok I am going to do some housework and try and calm down.:)

Lilypie - Personal picture
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Registered: 08-08-2007
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 2:46pm

That ticks me off.


AS IF we single parents and singles in general are happy go lucky

~Pacific~
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Registered: 11-22-2006
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 2:52pm
I know, right? I mean for goodness sake, many of us got married with every intention of staying together and then were LEFT. Do we earn less now? I dont. I earn more because I have to ( HELLO) and it pushed me to forward my career and my kid gets way better grades now than he would if I had stayed with his father and endured that mess all around him. I cant even think about how stressful that would have been for him.
I am really on a rant about this but honestly I am going to see this signs for a while so I better get used to them. Maybe if I get my validation through the board I will be able to walk and drive by the dozens of signs they have posted without growling...
Lilypie - Personal picture
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Registered: 08-08-2007
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 3:01pm

It irks me, too and it makes me think about how those write such things have not been in our shoes. Someone who makes such statements has probably lived the high life and has not had their life ruined by marriage and had to pick themselves up by the boot straps.


All high and mighty and judgemental and over the top right wing-


How about a slogan that says " Involved Parenting Works" . Why do we have to be in the "marriage box" to make things "work" ????


Grrrrrrrrr.

~Pacific~
~Pacific~
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Registered: 03-15-2004
Mon, 03-31-2008 - 3:23pm
He needs to get a LIFE.

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