From The Drum:
From the moment I decided to carry my girls I have mitigated against every threat to their future.
The rest of the paragraph is about the things loving parents do.
I steered clear of alcohol during the pregnancies, and drugs during their births. I slathered them in sun block and plonked hats on their curly-haired heads. I buckled their squirming bodies into every seat they were transported in, took their little hands across every street, rinsed the pesticides off their fruit, rubbed salt off their chips, and more recently chased off a risk-taking boyfriend and blockaded their screen time.
That opening sentence, however, sets an ideological agenda. It is a signal to someone – perhaps that she isn’t a mushy sentimental “breeder”? I don’t know but it does leave me cold – I just can’t buy into the argument that here is a concerned mum worried about climate change because she loves her kids.
Update: Thanks to nilk we have a website for our loving mum. She also has other interesting views.
To be fair – she does say the picture is intended to be ‘ironic’.
Could this be an over-protective s-mother-er, rather than a mother who would progressively train her children to be self-responsible, aware of dangers but prepared to take some risks in order to make their way in life?
Somehow this conjures up for me the image of the controversial Time cover regarding long-term breastfeeding.
John A
28 Dec 12 at 9:25 am
Sounds like child bearing was just another project, running in the bronze medal position behind the Doctorate and penning an unreadable book.
Leigh Lowe
28 Dec 12 at 9:32 am
That was written by an academic? F*ck me…..
boy on a bike
28 Dec 12 at 9:32 am
Bitty…
Pickles
28 Dec 12 at 9:37 am
“I decided to carry my girls”
As opposed to aborting them.
Everything in this article is carefully crafted to push the left agenda.
Barry
28 Dec 12 at 9:42 am
How long before she goes the full Ulrike Meinhof?
lotocoti
28 Dec 12 at 9:44 am
It’s ‘The Drum’ – musings from the asylum.
Chris M
28 Dec 12 at 9:47 am
I didnt decide to ‘carry’ my babies, I decided to have a child and then went about the ‘task’ of making one. And further, the decision was a joint one between the baby’s father and myself.
The decision should come before the pregnancy, not after, unless of course this ‘academic’ was incapable of using birth control to prevent conception in the first place and that the baby’s father had no say in the decision either. Must be a single mother then.
dianeh
28 Dec 12 at 9:47 am
Funny how she deos not mention providing a broad education as a “mitigating policy” against her daughters future. Only her own narrow ideology is sufficient.
I doubt my grandparents apologised for hitler, stalin, stagflation, kamakaze pilots or bread containing gluten.
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 9:48 am
We mitigate against every possible threat to our children’s clean energy future. What do you do?
ar
28 Dec 12 at 9:48 am
Most people need some form of religion and she of one of them.
Sleetmute
28 Dec 12 at 9:50 am
Ms Conor sure has tickets on herself.
candy
28 Dec 12 at 9:54 am
It’s the Drum, where you can peruse the ramblings of the insane.
Carpe Jugulum
28 Dec 12 at 9:54 am
LIZ was asked-
“”What is the best piece of advice you have received?”"
LIZ replied-
“”"Everything rises and passes, therefore there is no reason to react with either aversion or longing. This is a Buddhist mantra which I learnt on a 10-day meditation retreat. I was supposed to be drumming it into my mind, but instead found myself giggling over Seinfeld most of the time. Still it managed to sink in.”"”
Getting to know… Liz Conor
jumpnmcar
28 Dec 12 at 10:02 am
This woman is the sort who will kill her children if the situation warrants it, in her opinion.
They are just ‘things’ to her. She does all the superficial things that would have people think she is a wonderful mother, but she is a dreadful threat to the three girls.
1. Psych review;
2. Treatment; and
3. Confiscation of her children.
Winston SMITH
28 Dec 12 at 10:02 am
Candy, you just nailed it.
Perfect mothers are made in hell, and should stay there.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Dec 12 at 10:02 am
Everything rises and passes, therefore there is no reason to react with either aversion or longing.
That’s not living for a human being. That’s simply existing for the sake of it.
John Mc
28 Dec 12 at 10:05 am
A five year old at our house on Christmas Day responded to his Grandmother’s application of some discipline by calling her “the fun stopper”.
That would be an apt description of Ms Conor I think.
Leigh Lowe
28 Dec 12 at 10:06 am
I wonder at what age the Conor offspring were disabused of the myths of Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.
My money is on Santa’s cover being blown before they were three.
Leigh Lowe
28 Dec 12 at 10:10 am
Isn’t it just ‘mitigated’? ‘Mitigated against’ is wrong; perhaps she meant ‘militated against’.
The writer is what’s known as a ‘helicopter mum’. I have a sister-in-law who was once like that. When visiting I would offer to take her kids to the beach them stop off and buy fish-and-chips for them on the way home, with extra salt. They loved that — made a nice change from soy milk and carob.
Walter Plinge
28 Dec 12 at 10:13 am
I’m always fascinated by the mentality that believes it’s a moral imperative to save future generations from the global warming boogieman, but it’s fine to burden them with massive deficits they must service, overpriced housing they can’t afford and an education system that will fail their kids.
And, in the case of your standard leftard, leaving them with a degree in womyn’s studies and environmentalism, a HECS debt and no experience on how to earn a living!
John Mc
28 Dec 12 at 10:14 am
We constructed and used fire cracker glass marble canons with waterpipe at 8, we were heavily armed stalkers of small game with powerful slug guns at 9, at 10 we ran 12′ tinnies with 15 hp outboards in all conditions all over the huge water expanse at the front door and spearfished in sight of reef sharks.
And Mum would say “be careful, dinner’s at six o’clock.”
There’s a song that says “….he’s so afraid of dying he never learned to live”.
Alfonso
28 Dec 12 at 10:19 am
I have a hippy sister with a son who is turning 18 and getting a bit rebellious. I’m going to teach him to smoke.
John Mc
28 Dec 12 at 10:21 am
Nothing says “I love you” like the gift of lung cancer! What wonderful uncle you are.
Chris
28 Dec 12 at 10:26 am
Polluting the young minds of righteous relatives’ kids is one of life’s great joys.
areff
28 Dec 12 at 10:28 am
Global Warming alarmists suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder – the syptom is complete climate risk aversion.
Their approach to climate change is tantamount to taking out an insurance policy for a $35,000 Falcon, with an annual premium of $25,000.
Ignis cum Ignis
28 Dec 12 at 10:30 am
Teach him how to smoke cigars, drink scotch and womanise?
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 10:30 am
Just for you, Chris, I reckon I might have to shout John Mc’s nephew a pack of coffin nails.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 10:31 am
I get a strong sense of resentment towards the children in all that. Things that she missed out on, inconveniences endured. Otherwise known as parenthood.
Presumably she would have been skin popping and drinking gin if it had not been for them?
Frank
28 Dec 12 at 10:31 am
One is tempted to describe her a “bog-ignorant” and it would not be far from reality.
What a load of parroted and cliched jargon, even down to the children’s children ooze.
No knowledge of the philosophy of science or statistics, but full of transmitting whatever drivel is fed to her unquestioning and self-important mind.
Such are the disciples of Gore, Flannery, Mann, Hanson, Jones, Briffa and Trenberth.
One more neuron and she’d have her first synapse.
James of the Glens
28 Dec 12 at 10:32 am
” I have surrounded myself with an Orwellian membrane of half-awareness”
…definitely the “membrane” is squeezing the old brain a bit too tight!
“and gone on rushing from pillar to post to provide a future that deep down I’ve known for years is in doubt.”
…why the hell did she bother to have kids then?
Insane in the membrane!
EJ
28 Dec 12 at 10:33 am
Welcome to the fucking future with, not big brother looking sternly over us, but a sanctimonious, arrogant beyond belief parasite with tits giving us our guidance via her discovery of the principles of good parenting.
Can this society and AGW advocacy in particular get any fucking weirder?
cohenite
28 Dec 12 at 10:36 am
This ‘caring’ mother is busy terrifying her fourteen year old daughter with prospects of hellfire and damnation coming all too soon into the girl’s future. It is an outrageous assault on an impressionable teen.
This mother is doing so on the basis of questionnable science and a highly politicised agenda that reasonable people everywhere are quite rightly rejecting. She is satisfying some need in herself rather than assisting her child.
Little girl of fourteen, I was fourteen once and I am glad I thought for myself, and saw that the world was a place of hope and joy in which I could go out and thrive. Your mother is wrong, as mine was on so many things. A hot December day in Australia is just that: another hot day. Enjoy it, sweet one and take good care of your youth. Your future will then look after itself.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Dec 12 at 10:37 am
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT
– Frank Zappa
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 10:41 am
They really hate the possibility of their kids getting a crew cut and joining the army reserves. Might be worth hinting at the virtues of militaria? The idea that youngsters might rebel against the stuffy establishment is beyond them.
Frank
28 Dec 12 at 10:42 am
I get a strong sense of resentment towards the children in all that.
There’s a general hatred of humanity in leftwing thought, and it manifests itself most strongly with children. Whereas rightwingers with kids generally see potential and joy.
Another phenomenon I consistently see is leftwingers obsessing with the costs of kids, or what they will go without, whereas rightwingers see children as a reward unto themselves.
John Mc
28 Dec 12 at 10:48 am
I was considered the Rogue Uncle by my sisters kids. The most common question would be “What on earth has he done now?”
Each Christmas I would give them some money, with the admonition to spend it wisely on booze, drugs, and general mayhem.
They’re older now and can afford their own.
Growing ups a bitch.
Winston SMITH
28 Dec 12 at 10:49 am
I enjoyed that Chrissie dear.
Now amuse me with your position if John Mc had offered:
“I have a hippy sister with a son who is turning 18 and getting a bit rebellious.
I’m going to teach him to:
1. box;
2. charge into 5 other blokes with only a rugby ball under his arm to protect himself;
3. hurl a hard leather ball, with malicious intent, from 20 odd yards at another fella who isn’t allowed to run for cover;
4. accurately aim a rifle;
5. shoot a revolver;
6. change the icky black oil;
7. sharpen a 6 inch skinning blade;
8. gang hook 3 pilchards and get the line out, in, baited up and out there again while the tailor are running;
9. split log sections; and
10. set a fire out in the rain.
Whaddya say luv?
Mick Gold Coast QLD
28 Dec 12 at 10:49 am
Well I had a couple of drinks when I was pregnant. Seriously, a glass or two of something over the span of 9 months is not going to bring on foetal alcohol syndrome.
The pregnancy nazis are a serious pest.
As for rubbing the salt of chips? That should be against the law. Those kids are going to cost her a fortune in therapy later.
(I wonder what she’d say about me letting the offspring swing on the clothesline at 3yo?)
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 10:50 am
Utter tosh – and very self engrossed to boot!
val majkus
28 Dec 12 at 10:53 am
gang hook a pilchard, Mick ya dill!
Mick Gold Coast QLD
28 Dec 12 at 10:54 am
hehehe bring out the inner capitalist in him. Teach him to be a capitalist.
Gab
28 Dec 12 at 10:56 am
Add “snare n skin a rabbit” and the list is complete, Mick.
Pickles
28 Dec 12 at 10:58 am
@Lizzie, 10.37, regarding putting the fear of gaia into her children. I reckon if she took the kids to an evangelical or full-on pentecostal service with all the talking and shouting about hellfire and damnation she’d be condemned for brainwashing her kids and scaring the crap out of them.
But, since it’s all about Teh Climate, it’s okay.
I also noted the line about the empty streets on a hot summer’s day. Well, duh! It’s a hot summer’s day.
The streets would no doubt be less empty if more of us had more children, but on days like that they’ll be down the pool, or the creek, or having water fights in someone’s backyard.
What a miserable life some people lead. How thoroughly joyless.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 11:03 am
As a fellow Zappa fan, I approve of this post.
Back on topic. Now I’m admittedly a reluctant parent but jeez some people really do take the joy out of pretty much anything don’t they? That woman’s attitude borders on child abuse. You don’t fill your kids with your own anxieties and fears, rather you try and instil sound values and teach a sense of curiosity about the world around them.
tbh
28 Dec 12 at 11:03 am
So this ‘good mother’ had a think about whether to kill her unborn children?
Then she ‘decided’ not to.
Wow.
C.L.
28 Dec 12 at 11:07 am
It’s all John Howard’s fault…
Just another wealthy Victorian socialist. Good example to support privatisation of universities and stop government funding of research.
We shouldn’t be taxing the poor to subsidise wealthy socialists who can afford to pay for their own imagining…
Forester
28 Dec 12 at 11:11 am
Yep – plus lop the head off a chook for Sunday roast, bleed, pluck and singe its poor, innocent, defenceless and very dead carcass.
I do like Gab’s evil revenge as well Pickles.
Winston announces:
At first my girls used get all anxious when their lot disappeared into the grudge with Grandad … wood shavings, turning stone wheels, dust, benches, nails, deadly poisonous glue, band saw, chisels, delicious snail bait and lots of fascinating stuff. My son eventually turned them around by reminding them that is how they grew up and got to know how to be as capable as they are.
Mick Gold Coast QLD
28 Dec 12 at 11:11 am
Hi Winston. You are in good company here. Da Hairy Irish Ape is known around the friends and family traps as ‘the fun uncle’. Rolls around on the floor very readily, pretends great deal of ignorance on matters of significance to the under tens (allowing screams of correction from them), does the ape dance to perfection and he is a dab hand with easy card games, ball games, magic tricks, fart jokes and the giving of latitude beyond female concepts of safety and reason. Interventions may be required (no, not at speed on the ride-on lawnmower etc.).
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Dec 12 at 11:15 am
You made that up Forester, you did, you did! – didn’t you?
What Centrelink program is sustaining her?
… this stupid cow gets to vote!
Mick Gold Coast QLD
28 Dec 12 at 11:16 am
Ah the parenting of…seeming.
All pointless because with kids it is more often what is caught than taught.
And this one is a right royal model of self infatuation. It is clear that she is making it all about herself. Pity the kids.
Rousie
28 Dec 12 at 11:27 am
You can just see her in 15 years yelling at her daughters “I should have aborted you while I had the chance!” Expect calls for infanticide to be extended to, say, 16 years?
The Beer Whisperer
28 Dec 12 at 11:27 am
Nilk, I have quite a close female friend who is one of these Holy Rollers. She’s perfectly sane in every other way, so good on her. The thing is – the hellfire and damnation is all at the end of life, can be readily avoided by good behaviour, and obviously, it is only for other people and probably not all that much believed in. They seem to go more for a caring philosophy of including everyone in the party, and getting together with their Lord. No problems there.
But this kind woman would be ostracised as a redneck by the leftie luvvies (viz example above) currently putting the absolute frighteners on their kids.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Dec 12 at 11:32 am
No, Mick, that wasn’t made up. Nor was this, going by the blogname.
Read the whole post, although the art of using paragraphs is obviously not considered necessary for blogs of academics.
It’ll be interesting when the girls grow up and leave home.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 11:39 am
I take it she would say this occassionally, in anger when her daughters bizarrely follow their own beliefs instead of hers. But most frequently looking mournfully and deeply into their eyes, after reading newspaper articles.
Toiling Mass
28 Dec 12 at 11:44 am
Lizzie, I’ve no problems with the holy rollers – I’ve been to City Life services once or twice – and I’ve been accused of brainwashing as well so I wasn’t pointing it out as a criticism.
I don’t have a problem with talk of hellfire. At least as a christian I have a choice to behave better or not (yay for Free Will) whereas these wet blankets want everyone to be as miserable as they are, and you’ll pay in this life rather than the one to come.
It’s because she’s a hard left prat that we’re expected to tolerate her appalling views and, because, shut up!
Gotta love that Andrew Klavan. He totally nailed it.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 11:44 am
Aww, mum, not the big corporations lecture again.
To friend: Wish she’d leave us alone to to eat this lot and then throw it back up.
Don’t worry Cats, these kids will rebel in their own way.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Dec 12 at 11:49 am
Sounds to me like the narcissistic Ms Conor wants a medal or something for ‘carrying’ her children and nobly sacrificing drug and alcohol consumption…what a bitch. Thousands upon thousands of mothers do that and expect nothing for it, except the best chance of having a healthy baby.
Skuter
28 Dec 12 at 11:53 am
And for more shi’ites and giggles, the next post on her blog. All about a bunch of 13yos playing dress-up.
Only this woman could make it sound funereal rather than simply fun, and I’m a fanatic when it comes to tween girls and how they dress.
Somebody give that woman a jar of happy pills.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 11:57 am
John McC, this is at the heart of Socialist dogma – the citizen is a mendicant competing for the crumbs off the ruling classes table.
Capitalism however sees each new life as net addition to the worlds supply of happiness as well as a future contributor to everyone’s well being.
Winston SMITH
28 Dec 12 at 12:17 pm
When my nephew was 10 (a lively boy that wasn’t allowed to be), I bought him a toy belt fed machine gun and then helped cover him in camouflage black mud (that made me popular). Made him his first slingshot, showed him how to start a fire properly and bought him a proper decent pocket knife. I won’t go into the subsequent tryouts of cigs and beer.
(For all the Puritans out there, he didn’t become a smoker – I figured a couple at my place would be safer than sneaking them at home and possibly burning the house down, as well as removing the ‘forbidden fruit’ aura – and he doesn’t drink.)
My next project is helping him build a proper drag car – hey, he is a great kid worth putting the effort into.
And if anyone is wondering, yeah – his parents have torn me a few new arseholes over it. But we get over it.
TonyO
28 Dec 12 at 12:20 pm
Mr Anne Summers has The Dumb turned up to 11.
Atta’ boy Chip!
H B Bear
28 Dec 12 at 12:33 pm
For a hippie, she sure is a control freak.
Epic fail
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 12:50 pm
Related…
Gab
28 Dec 12 at 12:50 pm
And don’t forget her twitter feed, Sinc.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 12:52 pm
Reading all that you wonder whether she suffers depression.
Perhaps people hooked into climate change do suffer depression and so are vulnerable to end of world stories. That could explain it.
candy
28 Dec 12 at 1:00 pm
Wow.
Sinclair Davidson
28 Dec 12 at 1:01 pm
What a fruit loop. A lost Composta sister?
H B Bear
28 Dec 12 at 1:05 pm
Now at the risk of offending a few of the ladies, and I will point out exceptions, why does a caring academic expose her children to risks like this?
Ill tell you the risk factor after a couple of guesses, but shes in the frame..
“A study by Stanford University’s Center for the Study of Youth Development in l985 indicated that children in ************ families headed by a mother have higher arrest rates, more disciplinary problems in school, and a greater tendency to smoke and run away from home than do their peers who live with both natural parents–no matter what their income, race, or ethnicity.
No what is she doing to damage her kids futures?
thefrollickingmole
28 Dec 12 at 1:09 pm
reminds me of the Viz comic strip, modern parents. and that started a couple of decades ago.
Harrys on the Boat
28 Dec 12 at 1:12 pm
From her twitter feed.
The woman is clearly unhinged, as well as being chained to a fence at parliament house.
A legalistic parsing of that statement suggests speed, smack and acid while going to term followed by goon enemas in the delivery room is ethically A-OK. It would help to explain things.
Frank
28 Dec 12 at 1:15 pm
You know I lived through this sort of shit when I was a kid, it was “Ronnine Ray-gun will start a nuclear war”
It screws with impressionable kids heads.
Why do well at school etc, you will be dead anyway soon. Its child abuse.
“We used up the planet, we changed the climate and trashed it, and all because we wanted more stuff than we could possibly find room for. When you are my age there will be more storms, less places to grow food, more wars because oil supplies have peaked, and so much of the species, the beauty, the sheer wonder and inspiration of this planet will be lost forever.’
It was the hottest December day on record and we looked down the empty street.
‘This is the future,’ I said, ‘People holed up indoors to survive more and more days of extreme weather.’”
Nucking Futs… The woman is insane.
A song in her honor,
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-End-Of-The-World-lyrics-Laurie-Anderson/4E1F8EEA67FAE09548256D0A0006596E
And I remember the day she died. She was very excited. She was like a small bird perched on the edge of her bed near the window in the hospital. Waiting to die. And she was wearing these pink nightgowns and combing her hair so she’d look pretty for the big moment when Christ came to get her.
Ooooaaaah!
And she wasn’t afraid but then, just at the very last minute something happened that changed everything. Because suddenly, at the very last minute she panicked. After a whole life of praying and predicting the end of the world, she panicked. And she panicked because she couldn’t decide whether or not to wear a hat.
thefrollickingmole
28 Dec 12 at 1:16 pm
Barking Mad.
Rabz
28 Dec 12 at 1:32 pm
Mole, I pity her. She is an example of what happens when extreme lefties get hit with the reality stick of having kids. Nothing grounds you more than that.
Her thoughts on Bill Henson from a few years back:
Dr. Nilk predicts a good dose of lighten up. A quick skim over her blog shows a lot of agonising over things that just can’t be controlled, with petty actions such as the graffiti efforts and chaining herself to the gate at Parliament House. That’s such an effective action that I never knew about it until I read her tweets.
She worries so much about her daughters and the world they are growing up in (I’ve twice seen passing men’s eyes linger with pleasure over their wide-open faces and coltish forms. I fear for them because before they were even born their status as girls was sexualised and their beauty as children was appropriated to the intensely sexualised world of commodity fashion and beauty.).
Is life as a woman really so dismal and appalling that you must wear sackcloth and ashes in pre-emptive mourning for their dreadful lost lives?
How about the fact that her girls are living in an era of unprecedented prosperity? One where their mother gets paid to spout all sorts of gibberish and enjoy her trips to the gallery? They can fly around the world if they want, they can grow up to be pretty much whatever they want, and get all the tattoos and piercings a young thing might desire.
They can be artists, or engineers, or scientists or singers. They can make a motza designing a schoolbag like a woman did over in the UK recently, because she couldn’t afford the fees where she wanted to send her daughter to.
There are so many options available for girls today there is no excuse to be so miserable about it.
nilk
28 Dec 12 at 1:39 pm
And in paid employment!
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 1:44 pm
That blog of hers is a Wonder of the World. Shocking.
On a lighter note I read recently Queen Elizabeth was brought up in one of those grand London houses with share d gardens – I think like in the movie Notting Hill – and she and her sister ran around with a pack of the local kids tearing things up.
It changed when her Uncle abdicated, of course, but I just think it’s a nice image of these Princesses running around with the other (wealthy no doubt) kids.
Compare and contrast to Ms Conor.
DaveF
28 Dec 12 at 2:56 pm
She looks pretty much as expected.
DaveF
28 Dec 12 at 3:12 pm
No Frank. She is talking about epidurals during birth not illegal drugs at other times.
Among a certain class of mother, natural births are the way to go. She was just establishing her ‘birth cred’ to the sistahood.
jupes
28 Dec 12 at 3:35 pm
From the trollop’s blog:
Probably the largest employer of young Australians.
jupes
28 Dec 12 at 3:38 pm
One chapter in her blog I struggle to reconcile with the “loving parent-who-seeks-to-mitigate-all-threats-to-kids”
Steve at the Pub
28 Dec 12 at 3:39 pm
Can anyone make sense of this
Her use of the English language is a bit, how do you say, retarded.
Anyway, this individual is a goldmine of ridicule
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 3:42 pm
If Liz Connor was really an academic historian she would presumably have enough of a grasp of English not to confuse ‘mitigate’ (as in to lessen the effect of something) with ‘militate’ (as in operate to prevent something). ‘Mitigate against’ is not a correct or meaningful usage. And, of course her whole diatribe, is just tripe.
Peter OBrien
28 Dec 12 at 3:47 pm
Steve and Dan’s links: Wow.
The deluded tool defends the indefensible. Arlene is that you?
jupes
28 Dec 12 at 3:49 pm
It would seem that her abhorrence for vile fast food & evil fatty chips can be overcome in the right circumstances:
Steve at the Pub
28 Dec 12 at 3:58 pm
I bet she removes the icing from cupcakes given to her children- when they are allowed cake that is… What an indoctrinated control freak.
Cold-Hands
28 Dec 12 at 4:02 pm
This is the last update on her twitter feed. Does anyone happen to know if she’s still bolter to that gate? If it were up to me, I’d certainly have left her there!
Steve at the Pub
28 Dec 12 at 4:06 pm
It was 17 days ago Steve. I recommended she seek professional help. Troll through her other stuff and absolutely let it rip.
Dan
28 Dec 12 at 4:09 pm
My point exactly Dan. She hasn’t updated since the 9th. Perhaps she’s still there bolted to the gate!
Steve at the Pub
28 Dec 12 at 4:10 pm
Hey hey. Kinda like Assange in the embassy.
jupes
28 Dec 12 at 4:21 pm
Mole, 1985 would be too early for a large scale study on same-sex relationships, so the missing word(s) would have to be “single-parent”. At least Liz Conor has only daughters- you can only imagine the teen rebellion undertaken by a son of her’s after such a joyless, repressive upbringing…
Cold-Hands
28 Dec 12 at 4:26 pm
Can’t have been much of a demo, I’ve found no trace of it.
DaveF
28 Dec 12 at 4:26 pm
Probably stayed bolted to the gate only long enough to get the photo. Once the photo had been uploaded she’d have been off to get a latte.
Cold-Hands
28 Dec 12 at 4:28 pm
FIFY
DaveF
28 Dec 12 at 4:36 pm
Winston is correct. The woman’s twitter feed (Nilk @ 12.52pm) indicates she is both mentally unstable and totally irresponsible. She admits one of her children has ADHD. Big red lights.
Tom
28 Dec 12 at 4:46 pm
Cold-Hands
You got it.
The numbers are horrifying.
Rape by children of single parents… something like 8 times the probability…
But ive seen papers from (memory) UK, holland, US, Australia, Finland, and France.
Every one comes to the conclusion that single mothers kids do worse (on average) than nearly any other types, including (I cant recall which country), single dads, adopted, gay couples and even state care (which suprised me).
The few papers ive seen supportive of the concept of fatherless families were full of “feelings” but short on data.
thefrollickingmole
28 Dec 12 at 4:56 pm
Gab says
“Her parents admitted installing the tracking devices but argued that they were just trying to protect her.”
Contrl freaks who should have had an heir and a spare obviously.
Thank god they had not invented tracking devices when I was young. I would have had to run away from home. The only tracking device I ever noticed was my Dad’s car and boy was on the lookout for that every where I went!!!
I never dared get off my boyfriends motor bike and take the helmet off, if I even saw a similar model car go by!!!
Alice
28 Dec 12 at 4:59 pm
Is the research only of single Mums? Any on single Dads?
DaveF
28 Dec 12 at 4:59 pm
One of her early blog posts shows a remakable degree of awareness of just how out of touch she is with the beliefs of wider society:
What an unwelcome busybody she must be!
Steve at the Pub
28 Dec 12 at 6:07 pm
DaveF
Nowhere near as much, nearly all lumped in together most of the time.
One that did stand out was a EU country that claimed single dads were better, but still inferior to dual parenting.
Another claimed there was more chance of abuse by a mother than by a father.
I think the numbers might be too low to run a decent sample?
Ill see what i can find on fathers in particular.
thefrollickingmole
28 Dec 12 at 6:07 pm
My “feelings” tell me that the major source of abuse is mum’s latest boyfriend.
If true, this would lead one to surmise that on average being raised by a single dad is one helluva lot safer.
Steve at the Pub
28 Dec 12 at 6:16 pm
I doubt this is an unbiased source, but info on fathers alone is extrmely hard to find.
http://www.fathermag.com/news/2756-suicide.shtml
A family structure index – a composite index based on the annual rate of children involved in divorce and the percentage of families with children present that are female-headed – is a strong predictor of suicide among young adult and adolescent white males.” Source: Patricia L. McCall and Kenneth C. Land, “Trends in White Male Adolescent, Young-Adult, and Elderly Suicide: Are Ther Common Underlying Structural Factors?” Social Science Research 23 (1994): 57-81
Another..
What does this mean? Children from fatherless homes are:
http://helpforsinglefathers.blogspot.com.au/2010/05/statistics-and-interesting-information.html
4.6 times more likely to commit suicide,
6.6 times to become teenaged mothers (if they are girls, of course),
24.3 times more likely to run away,
15.3 times more likely to have behavioral disorders,
6.3 times more likely to be in a state-operated institutions,
10.8 times more likely to commit rape,
6.6 times more likely to drop out of school,
15.3 times more likely to end up in prison while a teenager.
(The calculation of the relative risks shown in the preceding list is based on 27% of children being in the care of single mothers.)
and — compared to children who are in the care of two biological, married parents — children who are in the care of single mothers are:
33 times more likely to be seriously abused (so that they will require medical attention), and 73 times more likely to be killed.
thefrollickingmole
28 Dec 12 at 6:21 pm
As someone who was taught to hide under a school desk during a possible nuclear attack, little miss / ms/cotton wool helicopter mum really should have a cup of concrete.
Steve of Glasshouse
28 Dec 12 at 8:00 pm
I loved her Telstra automated message rant. For faaarrkks sake, if you don’t want any calls prior to (insert time), leave the phone off the hook.
Steve of Glasshouse
28 Dec 12 at 8:15 pm
Visions of the kid’s first boyfriends. The lowered LPG Prius, hot dog exhaust and flashed ECU, speed limited to 75 km/hr. 3 point harness and racing helmet to protect the babes. Dash board HD cam to monitor other road users/abusers.
Face it, it isn’t going to end well…..
Steve of Glasshouse
28 Dec 12 at 8:23 pm
I know someone who is a single mother by choice – father was an anonymous donor. Will be fascinating to see how that one turns out over time. Not even having a father must really screw with your head over time as you grow up.
brc
28 Dec 12 at 8:39 pm
“Can this be the wall we put the coal barons up against?”
Maybe, but the steel and lead and hydrocarbon compounds etc. that go into the rifles you use and the ammunition they fire were ALL manufactured using processes that utilise coal or the energy therefrom, to some degree or other.
So no, you can’t shoot the coal barons – unless you want to share, however minutely, in their guilt.
perturbed
28 Dec 12 at 8:56 pm
“Can this be the wall we put the coal barons up against?”
And the paint came from ????? Aside from that, what earth mother type would be able to pull a trigger. Just as likely to frag themselves ..
Steve of Glasshouse
28 Dec 12 at 9:13 pm
brc – no dad? That’s OK. Welcome to Lezzo World, no dad in this pad.
Wot, no mum? That’s OK, ‘cos your two dads are gay.
I think we will see some sad little screwed-up kids as a result of all of this social engineering. I guess over the aeons kids have been screwed up by lots of things: lately, as a society, we seem to be better at adding to these screw-up factors than we are at reducing them.
However, to be fair, we do not know the state of play in the parental world of Ms. Conor (or do we?). Hopefully, there is a dad around who can counteract some of this control-freak and hopeless futures nonsense.
And I’d give her some benefit of the doubt: her blog bark may be worse than her at-home bite.
Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.
28 Dec 12 at 9:14 pm
The ongoing effects of inverting the societally based discrimination against deviancy into the current protected class mentality that rewards it will cause problems for generations to come.
Driftforge
28 Dec 12 at 9:21 pm
She had better watch out if Roxon’s laws are promulgated. I just might take offence to what is written on that wall.
Alx
29 Dec 12 at 2:31 am
@Alx: Better go and read Roxon’s laws again! Whether anybody is offended is irrelevant. Offence (& doubtless subsequent prosecution) will be “decided” by our betters.
Example: You say something mildly nasty about me. I proclaim that I am not remotely offended. However the “Offence Police” deem your comment offensive & you are prosecuted & punished, despite there being no offended party able to be produced.
Steve at the Pub
29 Dec 12 at 2:41 am
kill me now…
Alx
29 Dec 12 at 2:59 am
oh, wait, that’s what that fruitloop wants.
Alx
29 Dec 12 at 3:09 am
Alx, your “kill me now… ” comment has been deemed offensive. For that you are sentenced to be terminated.
Steve at the Pub
29 Dec 12 at 3:15 am