St. Luke's Mission of Mercy has received Buffalo Planning Board approval to construct the Gospa Village project, a complex serving single moms and their children. Up to eighteen single-family homes will be constructed on vacant lots on the block bound by Oberlin Avenue, Walden Avenue, Ruhland Avenue and Sycamore Street across from the St. Luke's campus. A shared educational and gathering space for residents is planned for Sycamore Street. The Buffalo Common Council has approved the sale of 18 City-owned properties needed for the project. Scheid Architectural is designing the complex.
Run by missionaries from St. Luke's, the project will provide a supervised living environment for single moms and their children. While there, residents will learn such things as parenting skills, budgeting, cooking and sewing; and they can earn GED and college degrees while their children are cared for. The goal of Gospa Village is to protect and help the women while they are learning to get back on their feet and care for their families.
St. Luke's Mission of Mercy is totally run by volunteers and has been serving Buffalo's poor, hungry, homeless, and sick for over 15 years. Gospa Village will be funded through private donations and corporate sponsorships.
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Stop rewarding single mothrs
Living off others and living off the taxpyer is not an option
Husbands and fathers are not an option
Women can't have it all or do it alone
There are women having sex and having kids just for the benefits they qualify
Put the kids in an orphanage and let the mothers visit but make them be responsible rather than rewarded
Or their husbands beat them or walked out on them for another woman.
Do you know any of these women? If not you should not be so judgmental Even if they are the lazy leaches you make them out to be do you propose dumping on their children in retribution or should we perhaps try to break the cycle by giving a helping hand and perhaps some good influences?
THis is a good example of what the Catholic Church could be doing in teh city instead of fleeing.
I agree with you Steel. To be fair though, the Catholic church does do a lot for the city even still. For example, it provides clinics in underserved areas of the city where the county has been pulling back. Catholic Charities is also involved in resettling a lot of the immigrants who are repopulating the west side.
Steel, my disagreement is not personal
However, while you and others are defending the mothers by blaming the father. When was the last time you saw federal, state and local benefits and laws written that favor the husband / father. Never. Husbands and fathers are optional which is the source of the problem. It takes 2 incomes to escape poverty and a 1 income single mother is guarrantee to a life of poverty.
Obviously while beating down the lack of the husband/fathers virtues and singing the praises of the wife/mother...and dismissing the orphanages...who has not been to a retail store or welfare line etc and scene these kids abused physically, mentally, emotionally by single mothers who cant handle being a parent. For liberals its politically incorrect to criticize the mother by saying they cant handle it and the kids should be taken away...but perfectly ok...to bash the husband/father
There is anti-male bias in our society and personally I for one will call it out. the only reason single mothers exist is because the state finances it. Cut off those social benefits and all this liberal politically correct nonsense would stop...and the kids would be better off in an orphanage than with an incompetent overwhelmed irresponsible mother.
PS: of all the single mothers...many dont get this free housing and job skills...its mostly those that know how to rig the system to work for them that get it.
LOL at there being an "anti-male bias" in this society. Clearly you need to walk a few days in a woman's proverbial shoes.
That's right! Punish these women for violating your personal moral standards! Let's block this organization, which works intimately in this community and knows its residents, from filling what it sees as a need because it might give these women the wrong idea and just encourage them.
I don't suppose you consider yourself to be a Christian, do you? Based off of your previous posts it would seem as though you adhere to some tenets of that faith. It certainly doesn't look like it here.
I'm going to guess your so angry after having to spend all day yesterday in line at a chik-fil-a under the searing heat of the sun.. All to protect "'merican values."
While your on your tear with your mid-20th century mindset, why not go after interracial marriage or the civil rights movement as well.
it's amazing how little of that article you must have read.
You: "living off the taxpayer is not an option"
Article: "Gospa Village will be funded through private donations and corporate sponsorships"
You: "make them [mothers] be responsible rather than rewarded"
Article: "residents will learn such things as parenting skills, budgeting, cooking and sewing; and they can earn GED and college degrees"
There are likely going to be a lot of requirements to live here. This isn't a BMHA, they don't have to accept anyone and everyone. They will likely force the mothers to take part in these self betterment classes at least as partial payment for living there. This is a supervised environment...
They will be in a supervised environment and will learn their GED and have responsibilities.
And I know alot of women who cant wait to have a baby because the federal, state and local welfare, grants, food stamps, housing, tuition is so much more than they would get than if they didnt have kids.
Meanwhile these women yell and hit and belittle their kids with all sorts of abuse. You can see it while their cashing in their food stamps and the local stores.
As far as it being a minority opinion, hey when times were good people looked the other way...pay my taxes and mind my own business...but with the debt and the high unemployment...people are starting to say no to state sponsored immigration and state sponsored feminism and state sponsored irresponsible behavior and civil service unions that bypass the taxpayer with their inside deals.
Civil Rights doesnt need support from social programs. Its a judicial matter. The taxpayer neednt be involved.
Inter-racial marriage and gay marriage is a civil matter and the taxpayer neednt be involved.
unwed, single mothers...thats a corruption racket that needs to end just like anti-male feminism.
Its all disgusting
"I know alot of women who cant wait to have a baby because the federal, state and local welfare, grants, food stamps, housing, tuition is so much more than they would get than if they didnt have kids."
Bullshit.
ezekiel 18:20 (new international version)
"the soul who sins is the one who will die. the son will not share the guilt of the father, nor will the father share the guilt of the son. the righteousness of the righteous man will be credited to him, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against him."
deuteronomy 24:16 (new international version)
"fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
wow you should probably reconsider other factors that cause these mothers to be single. Your accusation that they just have kids to get the benefits might be true of a very small group of the single mother population. Why are you punishing the kids by putting them in an orphanage? This is a great project and plus it is funded privately you should have no qualms about this.
You represent that shrinking vocal minority who try to impose personal values on others.
Free yourself from the worry and the hate.