We must be getting terribly close to ‘peak stupid.’ I wouldn’t have believed the Wall Street Journal story if I hadn’t found the actual press release from our nation’s Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy. Here’s the opening paragraph:
Today, United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents, highlighting the urgent need to better support parents, caregivers, and families to help our communities thrive.
Press Release: HHS
“With this Advisory, I am calling for a fundamental shift in how we value and prioritize the mental health and well-being of parents. I am also outlining policies, programs, and individual actions we can all take to support parents and caregivers.”
U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy
This load of drivel is also part of Hillary’s ‘It Takes a Village’ bullshit—the idea that your kids don’t actually belong to you, but to society, and that society has to take responsibility. Replace the word ‘society’ with ‘state,’ because that’s what these people actually believe. They think the state is a better parent than actual parents.
How soft has our society become, and what the fuck are we doing to the next generation by raising them in this touchy-feely, navel-gazing culture? It’s bad enough that Millennials and Gen Z aren’t having enough children, and now we have the ‘Nation’s Doctor’ issuing a health advisory on being a parent?
In the Wall Street Journal article, Dr. Murthy talks about his own response to being a parent.
Murthy describes parents’ loneliness as a unique kind that comes from being fully and solely responsible for another human being. Maybe powerless is a better way to describe it.
Murthy, age 47, described to me how he and his wife have felt that powerlessness firsthand.
Years ago, when they first relocated from Boston to Washington, D.C., their infant son had a bad cold and difficulty breathing. He knew what to do—suction the baby’s nose, turn on all the showers for humidity. But sitting there with his wife, holding a sick baby in a new town with no friends or family around, he felt helpless. And alone.
The Wall Street Journal (free link)
Filed under ‘No Fucking Duh!’ is the concept that a parent is responsible for another human being. If you’re thinking like this and are so terribly stressed out over being a parent, it’s probably best that you don’t procreate.