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May 6, 2006, 6:50 pm PDT
 Quote From: traveler3 Things are not necesarily getting worse, but rather these situations are comming to light. It has always been not too good in the past. But, more and more kids are being left to raise themselves as the mothers insist on working instead of caring for the kids for a few years. I told my wife 40 years ago that this new rage of belitteling motherhood and pushing the glory of working would lead to child problems of all kinds. You women libbers are responsible for the abandoment of these neglected children. Especially boys who are not taught that real strength is related to the ability to care for all people of all genders, ages, and sizes. Yes this includes your relatives. I recall to this day the children who would call me at work wanting their mother who was late for hours getting home. This occured more than once. P.S. You have to be WITH your children and not AT your children. Your scapegoating of "women's libbers" for the ills of society is rather oversimplistic. Not every working mother has the option of staying home with her kids. Consider these factors:
*The skyrocketing cost of housing & the cost of living in general. Economic realities make it impossible for many families to make ends meet on just one income. * Deadbeat dads. A phenomenom that's alive & well in the U.S. * An epidemic of layoffs making family financial situations less secure in general than they were before so many jobs were shipped off to China. *Other extenuating circumstances: My greatgrandmother became a single working mother in the 19-teens when her husband died suddenly of a heart attack. She had 5 children to support. A friend's mother became a single working mother in the 1940s when her husband unexpectedly abandoned the family one day, never to return. Both working mothers were not exactly "women's libbers."
Many mothers don't work because of the "glory of working" but because if they don't work, their family will be thrown into poverty. Also, many work part-time or from home.
The situation is not as simplistic as you make it sound. I am very wary of any diagnosis of the ills of society that scapegoats a particular group.
>Especially boys who are not taught that real strength is related to the ability to care for all people of all genders, ages, and sizes. Yes this includes your relatives.
The mother AND father should be teaching this to boys.
P.S. Speaking of women's libbers, my great great Aunt Mary marched in the streets of Detroit circa the 1920s so that women could get the right to vote. I never met her, but I'm very proud of her. :-) |
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