By: grannybunny

grannybunny — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:17:23 +0000

Good for Merck; more contributors should follow their lead. My son was a Cub and then a Webelo Scout. Most of the boys in his troops lived with their mothers in single-parent homes, with little to no interaction with their fathers. As a result, the groups were overwhelmingly led by the mothers. That all stopped when they got to be Webelos, due to the Boy Scouts’ rule that — from that point on — all troops had to be led by men. This led to bizarre results, like group parent-child campouts — where each child is supposed to be accompanied by a parent, to nurture family closeness — in which children, in order to participate, had to, instead, share a tent with an unrelated male, possibly even a stranger (not to mention, a pedophile). Needless to say, most of the boys from fatherless homes dropped out at that point. Thus, the Boy Scouts managed to discriminate against both women and single-parent homes — and their children, who tend to be lower-income — in one fell swoop.

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