Quote From: striple What about the woman with children who leave an abusive relationship but has no job skills? How can they take care of their children and NOT put them in some type of childcare so that they can go to school to support their family on more than a laughable minimum wage? Not everyone is blessed with the ability to go to college directly out of high school. And in this day and age, it is downright difficult to earn a decent living without it.
And again, there is nothing wrong with daycare. My child had to be in daycare for a while, and NO I did not just put her anywhere. I researched and found a good daycare facility that didnt' have a high child/adult ratio. I found one that was the best for my child and our needs.
Our live ARE NOT put on hold simply because we have children. We are still wives or husbands, and most of us still have rolls outside of our children. We are friend, daughter or son, brother or sister. We don't stop living because we have children. We are still to have an identity outside of our children, that is how we teach our children to be independent, healthy, and mature adults.
Dr. Phil said this< "You say you would die for your children, but what I want you to do is LIVE for them." No better words ever spoken.
I think our priorites are supposed to go in this order: 1) God, 2) Spouse, 3) Children, 4) Others.
Buy putting God at the head of our family as a whole, we have His divine leadership and love to guide us. Buy putting our spouse first, we are teaching our children how a loving relationship is supposed to look. And by putting our children before others, we teach them that they are ours and we love them and that we are a family.
You have one thing WAY wrong. The order is 1) God, 2) CHILDREN 3) Spouse, 4) Others. If I had to choose to save my husband or my son, my son would win everytime.
