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 promotion, of her husband's pet programs (the book was published in 1996, an election year), gives the appearance that the book was written as a piece of election propaganda to further her husband's election campaign with working mothers and his social program agenda.
Hillary Clinton states that "parents bear the first and primary responsibility for their sons and daughters." From this statement, it is clear that Hillary Clinton acknowledges that parents are...