Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Nobody has the right to tell married people how they have to live, or to force their children to leave their homes and their schools.

April 4, 2017


That's the address of an article about a stupid petition.



Leave the President's kid alone.  

What about the right of a married woman not to have to rearrange her life according to her husband's change of profession?  

We have never had a female President.  If we did, would there be a petition saying that her husband had to live where other people told him to live?  Wouldn't there be people saying that it was unfortunate that he had to follow his wife?  Poor him; isn't that what people would say?

The country wastes money on all sorts of things.  I don't know that this is one of them.  Doesn't there have to be Secret Service everywhere that the President and his family are?  If he visits his own wife in their own home when he has time instead of taking a vacation that has to be scheduled for weeks in advance, why is that bad?  

Why are expectations about families that are two centuries old being applied to shame people in the 21st century?  What about the right of someone who has one of the most difficult professions in the world not to have to disrupt the stability of a family dynamic that supports a young child?  



Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, April 4, 2017 @ 7:50 p.m.