Wisconsin Lawmaker Introduces Law To Classify Single Parenthood As Child Abuse

[XanaDUer]

Sorry, I wished this was from The Onion, but it's not


Wisconsin state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R-West Bend) has introduced a bill demonizing single parents by classifying them as child abusers.

Senate Bill 507 specifically requires "the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect."

A third of Wisconsin parents are single parents, but this law affects even more than that. The way the law refers to "nonmarital parenthood" also makes this applicable to non-married couples, including same-sex couples. S.B. 507 reads:

MORE:

http://chicagoist.com/2012/03/07/wi_grothman_parenthood_abuse.php

[mysuzuki2]

1. Grothman is a dick

[DallasNE]

33. Isn't He One Of Those

That survived a recall election? What were the Wisconsin voters thinking.

[mysuzuki2]

41. His district includes West Bend.

those folks would vote for a box of rocks if it had an R after its name.

[Downwinder]

2. Going to file charges against the missing possibly deceased spouse?

[zbdent]

6. Nope ... that's not the "abuser" ...

In fact, that's one way to make your abused wife lose her kid and you win ...

(already abusive) husband decides to walk away from the marriage ... divorces the wife. Remarries quickly, gets the kids. Wife left with NOTHING.

And that's not "abuse"???????

[Downwinder]

16. Disagree. It is a criminal act to force someone else to preform a criminal act.

[zbdent]

17. WTF???

Explain ...

[gateley]

3. Things are getting fucking surreal. It's beyond crazy. nt

[XanaDUer]

5. Yes. Yes, they are.

[XanaDUer]

4. I know what you all are thinking...

how will this handle situations like, a minor female has an out-of-wedlock child? Will a law like this effect her, her parents, or, horrors, cause her to seek an abortion?

Or, say a spouse dies leaving behind the other spouse and the children?

What happens in that case?

ARE there enough courts and social workers to handle this?

[Kalidurga]

8. There should be a law against even trying to make laws like this...

It is unconstitutional. It won't hold up. But, in the meantime we have to be bothered with reading about these garbage lawmakers.

[freshwest]

23. Yep. GOP creating more classes of people to discriminate against.

That's what they do best.

[meow2u3]

9. I read about him

This is coming from a guy who never married, has no kids, and is more likely than not a closet case. He is the epitome of ignorant bigotry.

[hobbit709]

13. And still lives with his mother

[treestar]

45. Or is straight but no women have ever been interested

[firehorse]

10. Another war on women, since most single parents are women.

Another attempt to take us back to the dark ages.

[Ellipsis]

11. I knew who it was before I clicked on the link

I don't think this will play well for him.

[XanaDUer]

15. His reputation preceeds him, I see. nt

[Downwinder]

12. This dork has a Law Degree from the University of Wisconsin?

[Spirochete]

14. Remind me never

to hire a lawyer who went there...

[Brickbat]

18. This story is from March. The bill never got out of committee.

[XanaDUer]

19. It was just brought to my attention by a friend on FB.

Glad it was, aborted, so to speak.

[Ellipsis]

20. Well you might want to check your facts first instead of posting it like it was fresh news

...and although he's a fuckin' dickhead and this story is moot he should still be kicked down the road for the concept.


Senate Bill 507

An Act to amend 48.982 (2) (g) 2., 48.982 (2) (g) 4. and 48.982 (2) (gm) of the statutes; relating to: requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. (FE)
Status: S-Public Health, Human Services, and Revenue
Important Actions (newest first)

3/23/2012 Sen.
Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1820

February 23, 2012 - Introduced by Senator Grothman, cosponsored by
Representative Pridemore. Referred to Committee on Public Health, Human
Services, and Revenue.
1 An Act to amend 48.982 (2) (g) 2., 48.982 (2) (g) 4. and 48.982 (2) (gm) of the
2 statutes; relating to: requiring the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board
3 to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and
4 neglect.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau Under current law, the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board (CANPB)
conducts various activities relating to the prevention of child abuse and neglect.

Those activities include all of the following:

1. Awarding grants for child abuse and neglect prevention programs that
promote public awareness of the need for child abuse and neglect prevention and that
provide community-based education and services for parents, children, and
families.

2. Awarding grants to family resource centers that provide parenting education
and referrals to other social services programs.

3. Administering statewide projects for the prevention of child abuse and
neglect.

4. In cooperation with the Department of Children and Families and the
Department of Public Instruction, promoting statewide educational and public
awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness
of the problems of child abuse and neglect and disseminating information about the
problems of, and methods of preventing, child abuse and neglect to the public and to
organizations concerned with those problems.

5. Providing, for use in its statewide projects and for use by organizations that
receive grants from the CANPB, educational and public awareness materials and
programming that emphasize the role of fathers in the primary prevention of child
abuse and neglect.

This bill requires the CANPB, in conducting those activities, to emphasize
nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

1 Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
2 48.982 (2) (g) 2. Promote statewide educational and public awareness
3 campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the
4 problems of child abuse and neglect. In promoting those campaigns and materials,
5 the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child
6 abuse and neglect.
7 Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
8 48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods
9 of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned
10 with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize
11 nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.
12 Section 3. 48.982 (2) (gm) of the statutes is amended to read:
13 48.982 (2) (gm) Provide, for use by the board in its statewide projects under sub.
14 (5) and for use by organizations that receive grants under subs. (4) and (6),
15 educational and public awareness materials and programming that emphasize
16 nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect and the
17 role of fathers in the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect.
18 (End)


It's on the internet it must be true.

[XanaDUer]

21. Thanks!

You are super-helpful!

[Zalatix]

28. This is the first time I've ever heard of such a law.

[MichiganVote]

22. Total asshole. Complete fail.

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. WTF

[ladym55]

25. Wow. There are just so many layers of wrong here

I'm assuming Sen. Grothman is a strong proponent of comprehensive sex education???

Huh. We can't fund education, won't support infrastructure, but state legislatures have time for this complete and total asshattery?

So, say your spouse DIES in service to the country ... is THAT child abuse???

[HereSince1628]

26. The obvious thing is that Grothman is a real idiot

The very unfortunate thing is that he is securely elected.

He's one of the WI creeps that said that men need money more than women.

You can scream all you want because this very very sad and very very very wrong.

[benld74]

27. HEY Grothman, yer stoopids is showing!!!!!

[skepticscott]

29. Ok, this guy may be a dickhead

But the people here getting their shorts in a knot over this law should actually READ it. Nowhere does it say that if you are a single parent that you are by default a child abuser or can be criminally charged with child abuse. Nothing even close to that. The headline of this OP is seriously misleading about what the law says, though to be fair, the article linked to has the same misleading headline.

[XanaDUer]

38. As you noted, I used the title given. I always do when I post articles. nt

[MsPithy]

30. Hey! I was just kidding when I proposed that rape survivors be forced to marry

the rapist, after being forced to bear the rapists baby, because having the father in the home is so important.

I didn't think anyone would take a monstrous idea like that and try to call mothers who refuse to marry the rapist, child abusers.

No war on women? Riiight.

[Avalux]

31. This is insanity. Pure insanity. And it gets validated.

Scary times people, scary times.

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. he must rep an area of mostly married couples. Folks that like to superior to others

[Scuba]

34. We're working hard to beat Glen in November. Please consider supporting Tanya Lohr...

http://www.lohrforsenate.com

[XanaDUer]

35. Thank you, Scuba, for posting this

we need to "take America back" from The Crazies.

[Skidmore]

36. Is this another example of the long arm of the Vatican reaching into domestic politics?

It is past time for churches to pay taxes here.

[XanaDUer]

37. I'm not sure what religion this nut is

but it is time, long overdue, to make sure there is separation of church and state in our country. These ppl are beyond nuts. They are psychotic, and want to codify their religious beliefs (minus the helping-the-poor part that that bearded dude Jesus always harped on, the hippie ) into law in order to start stoning people, placing them in jail for years w/o charges being brought.

[sarcasmo]

39. The Republicans want us back in the 1800's.

[treestar]

43. Heck in the 1800s a lot of children were orphans or lost a parent due to death

And yet that is not a problem to this dickhead.

[midnight]

40. Children of divorce are probably more victims of Walker's domestic abuse policies than anything else

[Skidmore]

44. Yes.

Posterboy for the New Republican Party.

[shcrane71]

42. Grothman's disgusting.

Revolting.