Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, in her book, It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us, attempts to please all of the people all of the time. Her position is that children are at risk in today's society from drugs, violence, premarital sex, a lack of health care, too much television, the education system, in general, from the social structure of society itself. Hillary Clinton, throughout the book, states the importance of a child having "good" parents, but she consistently promotes the idea of governmental programs replacing parental oversight of children. She wants to remove the responsibility and credit of raising good children from the parents and place it on the government and society. This duality, claiming that parents have the greatest impact on a child's life and stating that parents must relinquish control of their own children to society, which wishes to "help" the parents whether the parents want help with raising their child or not , causes Mrs. Clinton's argument to be illogical. Her premise of needing a whole village to raise a child is incorrect. It takes two parents who are willing to sacrifice their wants, for the sake of their child, to raise a child; the first responsibility of the village should be not to hinder the family in its job of raising children . Hillary Clinton tries to be both pro-traditional family and pro-dual-income family, which want everything and think government should support their choices. Hillary Clinton's consistent p
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p in a Christian home, going to Sunday school, youth group, and church sponsored social service projects. In the chapter, titled "Children Are Born Believers", Hillary Clinton claims that children are born with a predilection for spirituality. The impression is given that Hillary Clinton holds the same definition of spirituality as her mother: "A sense of the good." It follows that Hillary Clinton believes that children are born good, with the ability to distinguish ethical, moral, and correct behavior. Even the title, of her book, includes these words "other lessons that children can teach us"; obviously she feels that children can teach adults, not that adults need to teach the children.
Children are not born with a sense of goodness. No one teaches a child to hit another child, to steal a cookie from the cookie jar, to lie--children do these things because from birth, until taught otherwise, children are innately selfish. Children are concerned with what they want, not the other person. Good citizenship is important to the running of this country. Practicing good citizenship requires an understanding of power and conflict. Children must acquire these skills and the values which accompany them, from adults; childr
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