[ilovemyglo]

Okay, before everyone says "How dare you look at this situation, this person would be a great asset" you also need to ask a few questions.
You said that you have caught this girl lying about multiple things, are these things that you feel you could bring up her membership about? or just random things and this particular issue you feel you could bring her membership on?

As for having members with children, I think it depends on two things.
Your campus' Greek Life and your chapter's involvement.

For instance, at my campus it wouldn't have been a really big problem. But, at my campus we only had 7 sororities, and total was 95. I was also in a smaller school located in the south. Down there women get married at 16 and 17 (yes, it is true) and have children early, too. So it really isn't a big deal.

Now, if I were at a campus that had TONS of greek involvement and TONS of chapters and such it may be more difficult. With all of the mandatory events, and obligations we had just in our chapter (at a school with a small greek life) I know it would be difficult to maintain those requirements. That being said if I had been at a school that more than we did, it would be nearly impossible.
Think about it- all of our retreats were mandatory, recruitment workshops, RUSH (can a woman really be away from her child for basically two weeks?), initiation and preinitiation events, certain campus wide events like Greek Week, All sings, etc.

Okay, I already know the argument against this- That potential member with a child has thought about this before hand and they know what to expect.
My rebuttal- NO THEY DON'T. You only partially know when you pledge how much time it takes to balance your social life, your sorority, your school and maybe a job. Add in family life if you go home some.... now... I sure as heck did not know that for two weeks in August my life would be nothing but AGD- and I was fine with it, but I didn't have a son or daughter.

Being in a sorority has its responsibilities too. I am not saying DONT pledge women with children, not at all. I am saying that perhaps in certain places it is not wise. At my school, it would have been fine, at other schools probably not.

On a side note- we had an LC come visit us while I was a collegian and she told us about a woman that came through rush and brought her 2 year old daughter to all the parties. She quit rush because she didn't realize how hard it would be, but for the first rounds there was a two year old running around.

Different orgs have different rules on sisters that are married and sisters that have children. My chapter doesn't have a problem with married sisters but a Phi Mu at my school said that any girl that gets married is forced to go alum. At the KD chapter at my school you can't have children and be active. Just different orgs have different rules and for different reasons.

My point- there are legit reasons for not having members with children at some places. I do not think that IMAGE is a legit reason, but I know that obligations are.