I think dads also have a holiday, don't they? Grandparents, too, though I'm not sure that's really a national holiday. It might just be a Hallmark holiday.

Dads are a good example. We, as a culture, and as a nation of people, recognize the importance of fatherhood. We have laws specifically relating to that importance, regarding child-support and father's rights in divorce.

These are good things to recognize, I think. If congress wants to say that mothers and/or fathers are important things for society to have, so that legislation reflects that, I have no problem with that. Yes, it sort of borders on social engineering, but I think that it's really just stating the obvious to say that a good, healthy society needs good parents more than it needs anything else. Presidents get all the good press and the major scandals, but parents are the people who do all the real work in this country.

Incidentally, Happy Mother's Day, everyone.