The unintended consequences of freedom for women are visited upon the
nations today.

The welfare of women and children remains one of the best measures of
civilized society. The measure of the nurturing and child development
experience is most likely the best, particularly when the focus involves
the members of society that are most socially isolated.

The concepts of freedom for women and the welfare of women differ.

In the single woman, the issues are moot. When women become mothers, there
is a different situation. Mothers will continue to find that too much
freedom destroys children and the family.

Women that provide a superior nurturing environment for their children for
the early critical years, usually through their own efforts (although other
cultural and financial arrangments can be made). Will truly be free in the
future as their children are the most likely to be self-sustaining.

Women that decide to impose their freedom at the cost of nurturing their
children, run the risk that they will never be truly free.

Economic desperation and survival may force alternative arrangements for
nurturing, with the same consequences as too much "freedom"

Fathers are not immune to these areas either. A world designed for maximal
freedom with minimal responsibility does not help parenting.

The stability of nurturing must be insured by at least one parent. In more
and more instances the grandparents are being called in because of
inadequate parents.

Efficient, effective, and equitable societies (and families, and cities...)
begin with superior nurturing. Efficient, effective, and affordable health
care begins with adults who were nurtured and because of this make better
decisions in life, in health care, in jobs, in education, and more.

Signed as a parent of adopted children including some that were not
effectively nurtured in the first months of life.

Robert C. Bowman, M.D.
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