dumb press release of the day
[this house and pundit are multiple winners!]
BRAD AND ANGELINA HOLLYWOOD “IDOLOGY”: The Glamorization of Out of
Wedlock Pregnancy For Booking Katharine on your show, call Special
Guests at: 630-848-0750.
For Questions/ information regarding Katharine DeBrecht, call Kay
Bell at: 703-356-3839
Does anyone see the dichotomy of Angelina and Brad going to Africa, a
country that is plagued with aids, famine and out-of-wedlock
pregnancy, to demonstrate that is it perfectly acceptable and even
glamorous to have a baby outside of the context of marriage? Is
anyone out there getting this? Angelina and Brad, under the guise of
“helping Africans”, are justifying, by example, to Africans one of
the very problems that plague that nation.
Conservative Book Author/Lecturer Katharine DeBrecht is conducting
Talk Show interviews to discuss this topic.
During your interview, DeBrecht explains that contrary to what Jolie
is inadvertently or overtly portraying to young Africans, abstinence
works and Uganda is a perfect example. She gives statistics to back
her claims, including:
In the early 1980’s Uganda suffered from an AIDS epidemic. The
government of Uganda responded by an all out ABC plan – Abstinence,
Be Faithful (Monogamy), Condoms (as a last resort). Throughout the
1980s and 1990s cases of HIV decreased dramatically, and from 1991 to
2000 decreased from 21 percent to 6 percent. A 2004 Science study
found that abstinence and monogamy, not condom use contributed to the
decline of AIDS cases in Uganda. Something apparently Jolie and Pitt
are not promoting nor know something about.
Adolescent births comprise of 15-20 percent of births in 11 countries
in Africa. Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest levels of early
childbearing in the world. Although traditional rural Africa had
always promoted child-bearing as a rite of passage within the
constraints of marriage or consensual union where information such as
teachings of family life and child spacing were passed on from
generation to generation, rapid urbanization and peer and modern
influe nces have diminished this tradition with lack of support for
marriage or the young mother. If you think it is hard to be a single
mother in America, imagine the life of the single mother in Africa.
PubMed, a service of The National Library of Medicine and the
National Institute of Health, report from the Division of Pediatric
Endocrinology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State
University College of Medicine, Hershey 17033: “An increasing age of
marriage coupled with high rates of premarital sexual activity have
caused notable changes in the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies
in much of the developing world. In Africa, local policy makers are
beginning to perceive the medical implications of these changes as
the youth component of illicit abortion, maternal mortality, and
sexually transmitted disease becomes more visible. Other social
issues, which include school leaving, unemployment, violence and drug
abuse, are emerging among the young people o f Africa as elsewhere.”
It is indisputable that abstinence is the only true prevention of
AIDS. What message does Jolie bring to Africa and her fans all over
the world when commenting, “I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna
taste everyone in the world.” Jolie is hardly the poster child for
abstinence who stated about her lesbian affairs, “They’re right to
think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with
my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know
that.”
Let’s take this out of Africa and to the US. According to The Family
Research Council: “Unwed mothers and fathers are less likely to marry
and more likely to suffer from depression and to live in poverty than
are those who do not have children outside of marriage. Children born
to teen mothers are more likely than other children to have lower
grades, to drop out of high school, to be abused or neglected, to
have a child as an unmarried teenager, and to be delin quent. Teen
childbearing costs U.S. taxpayers an estimated $7 billion each year
for increased welfare, food stamps, medical care, incarceration and
foster care costs, as well as lost tax revenue due to government
dependency. The gross annual cost to society of unwed childbearing
and its negative consequences is $29 billion, which includes the
administration of welfare and foster care programs, the building and
maintenance of additional prisons, as well as lower education and
reduced productivity among unwed parents.”
What new “social change” which Hollywood overtly seeks, are these
celebrities now promoting? One-third of births in the United States
are out of wedlock . Among women under age 20, 70 percent of all
births are to single mothers. The consequences of this tragedy are
not only to the children but to society as well.
Let us review. Brad Pitt commits adultery, but that’s OK because he
is a celebrity. Angelina and Brad lie about their affair but that’s O
K too. Angelina and Brad consummate an out-of-wedlock pregnancy.
Angelina announces to the world that she has no plans to wed Brad
Pitt. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. is unapologetically born and
celebrated as the wonderful product of this celebrity union. Jennifer
Anniston is left to pick up the pieces while entire scene is celebrated.
Jolie was never portrayed as a home wrecker, perhaps because of her
work in Africa as a Goodwill Ambassador. Heck, Kenneth Lay of Enron
did charity work. Jolie was appointed Goodwill Ambassador by the UN
in August 2001 at the same time her hit Tomb Raider was released.
Chris Janowski, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees,
said Jolie “can naturally bring in our message to youth.” But what
type of message is a woman, who has an affair with a married man and
then has a child out of wedlock and yet is received like royalty in
Namibia, portraying to a continent that is ridden with AIDS and poverty?
We have already seen the consequences of infidelity and divorce on
the family and children. Children raised in a single-parent home are
more likely to live in poverty, engage in premarital sex, develop
substance abuse problems, perform poorly in school and commit suicide.
Sixty percent of inmates in US jails were raised by a single parent.
Knowing that children of single parents are at a higher risk for
failure, why is Hollywood glorifying single parenthood?
“The new hot accessory is no longer a Chihuahua. It’s a baby,”
according to Us Weekly editor Katrina Szish. “It’s not about
Tinkerbell [Paris Hilton’s former dog], it’s about Apple.” And if
actresses cannot sport a “bump” for physical or career reasons, they
are adopting babies with no stable father in the picture. Calista
Flockhart and Rosie O’Donnell were two examples.
Several A-list celebrities have joined this trend, Heath Ledger and
Michelle Williams, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Gwyneth Paltrow and
Chri s Matrin, Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, Heidi Klum and Seal,
and the ever “beloved” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
Brangelina and other Hollywood celebrities have made a mockery out of
marriage and family and African, American and world societies are
paying the price.
So where is the outrage with the latest antics of Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie? Do these A-list beautiful people once again get a
free pass on immoral behavior? Why do we glorify an unmarried couple
having a child out of wedlock and who barely seem fit as parents?”
Will the Hollywood Idology indoctrination continue to shape us, or
will we stand up for the values that protect children within a
context of a family?
ABOUT KATHARINE…
Katharine DeBrecht is an author of conservative children’s books and
a mother of three. Her first book Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under
My Bed! hit #1 on the Barnes & Noble website in September 2005 and
was profiled by the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and other
publications. A graduate of Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame,
DeBrecht served as co-captain of “Security Moms for Bush” for South
Carolina, where she resides with her husband and children. Her latest
book is titled Help! Mom! Hollywood’s in My Hamper!