Who’s short changing our young women?

The short changing is across the board. Sexually transmitted diseases that result in death, sterility, or lowering of marriage prospects are just one symptom. Lowering of self esteem, so crucial to growing good young happy and healthy daughters, is another symptom of what has been going on the last three or four decades. Another short changing is the crazy notion that boys and girls are the same, and the indoctrinations that reinforces all these notions. Reinforcing self respect seldom happens compared to the way thing used to be reinforced. Public shame and embarrassment about having sex out of wedlock, and the ever growing having children out of wedlock, is waning. Last, the idea of feminine beauty being looking like teenage boys is unfair, and unnatural.

Who’s doing this shortchanging? The usual culprits are the ugly disagreeable women who give away sex for attention, and the similar men who take advantage. But so many others make the usual culprits pale in comparison. The promoters of the pill and abortion as birth control methods are major short changers. Our community leaders, some religious, some teachers, all parents, are major short changers if they deviate from making young women in charge of their and human reproduction. Pregnancy denied does not stop diseases and all the terrible consequences. Having sex because you can never supercedes the basic female instincts of self preservation and motherhood. And our society’s politicians that do not establish laws that reinforce and reward families and marriage that support our young women have short changed these young people. Even the idea that a young girl can have a family and a career without consequences is so unfair, even if politically correct.

Now one can never tell boys and girls what to think and how to act, especially when hormones are raging. This not rocket science. The idea is as old as humanity. But we can dictate behavior, and support ideas and policies and laws that promote and protect and grow our daughters into productive young Americans. Anything less, which is what we have been doing in the last few decades, is short changing this group of young women.

In our vast land many fellow Americans deserve to be congratulated for being themselves, and in so doing enhancing our young women. All is not doom and gloom. There are many bright spots. Growing these spots into bigger areas should be a National Interest objective in the next one or two decades.

Call it Nation Building, “at home”. For example, the well publicized idea of it takes a village to raise a child is so third world and associated with Africa. While trendy, this idea fails so many of our American National Interests to promote our young women by “our” values. So as always it comes down to our votes…political, pocket book, and even choice of churches and religious leaders. Now this is a good way to protect and promote our future young women in pursuit of their happiness and our societal interests. These days it is called a “win win”. Decades ago it was called “women’s rights”.