Journal of Psychology and Clinical Psychiatry

It Takes a Village to Raise a Child by Hillary Rodham Clinton (: Simon and Schuster, 1995)115pp

Opinion after that. Volume 6 Issue 1 - 2016 I first took grave issue with the full title and it was all downhill

Retired, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Case Western “childrenThe full in title charge,” is “It “theyTakes canA Village teach Tous,” Raise and A“they Child have And innateOther Reserve University School of Medicine, USA goodness”Lessons Children has been Teach proven Us.” wrong How saccharine! so many times The in implication fact that one of has to be daft to give it much consideration any longer. But what *Corresponding author: Dr. Samuel A Nigro M.D, Retired, Assistant Clinical Professor Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve else can one expect from the author? University School of Medicine, 2517 Guilford Road, Cleveland when he was giving a priest retreat, a young priest asked pointed Heights, Ohio 44118, USA, Tel: 216 932-0575; Email: andThe aggressive book reminds questions me aboutof Archbishop the Church Fulton with Sheen’s “all its wealth.”story of Received: November 11, 2015 | Published: June 02, 2016 break time to continue on his decrying the so-called wealth of the Church.The young After priest several even minutes, barged into Sheen the interrupted Archbishop’s the office priest during with at which point the young priest broke down and proved Sheen’s huncha firm: true“How — much that the did reason you steal?” for his And “too he much” pressed protest several was times that Leave it to a closet socialist to write a book with its title such the priest himself had taken too much. that you will end up with a communist style “village” which will be It’s the question many of us would wonder about the author of woman has about as much right to write a book about children this book: how many abortions did she have any way? How about a pagan village filled with sophisticated welfare traps. In fact, this all of her colleagues at the Children’s Defense Fund? One wonders of the tyranny of manipulative journalism which promotes it and if any courageous journalists will ask her? No doubt, her response badas 1 booksdo about in general decorations which in at the bottom White are House. nothing This more is an than example self-

But above all, this is another “about” book — it is about can be filed along with most all else she has to say. Too much. I read the book in one sitting. If it were better written, it would something and not the something. Actually, a better title would inflated, self promotional pieces. to keep an army of cockroaches and welfare caseworkers alive for have taken me half as long. There is enough sweet, slippery stuff haveIn been: the travels, “The Travels many niceof Hillary vignettes And Chelsea.’and feel-good pap chattily please anybody and nobody. In summary: be nice to animals and It takes two committed parents (male and female) following others and be sure and tell those aborted babies how legally they a long time. The pygmies are judging what is tall. died, which must have happened to white boys since none were in come to discount all standing to raise a child. And books about the crowd of children on the full color book cover. With this book, the Ten Commandments with a traditional family under 1 have Hillary gets what she wants: subservient boys, sexualized girls, this is never done because such a family would never be liberal enough.the family which do not define the family in an ideal manner. But oldand urineliberal in good-for-nothing new bottles. I may children. have overlooked The government something, is not but to As G.K. Chesterton wrote: “Even the tyrant never rules by force Itake found over nothing but it on should military be usedservice more consistent efficiently with with the the author’s usual alone, but mostly by fairy tales,” among which and (and her husband’s) understanding of patriotism: not to die but this book can be included. to lie for one’s country. Of course this is the problem: how does one listen to the messenger when you know she is a liar? Especially when you have proved wrong when the burden of proof is on her. figured out that she is an impudent liar — demanding that she be What we have here is a good talk and bedtime story, a lullaby with liberal twists tenaciously held as doomsday cults persist in of liberal flattery and appropriation of conservative ideas recited proves the liberal solutions have failed but their promoters march their ideasideas oneven and though on. the doomsday date is passed. This book

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Nigro SA (2016) It Takes a Village to Raise a Child. J Psychol Clin Psychiatry 6(1): 00333. DOI: 10.15406/jpcpy.2016.06.00333