Messages By: wyldcelt

No 

Men cheat because A) They can B) Because they're selfish or have impulse control problems and C) Because there are women willing to put up with their lack of integrity. The reasons they give are excuses for their own poor behavior: an attempt to place the blame on someone other than themselves. Why would anyone want to stay with a LOSER that behaves like this? 

That doesn't excuse wives from taking care of themselves while taking care of kids, it just requires some adaptations to established routines. It is easy to fall into lazy patterns when you're getting very little sleep but wives have to make a conscious effort to make sure they're taking care of themselves as well as others 

I don't think you fully understand the difficulties of single moms, particularly those single moms with special needs children and a deadbeat dad. Employment opportunities are limited for single moms due to the extra time off to deal with your kids as a single parent. Alot of employers don't want the hassle and will do their best to steer clear of hiring single parents. Yes, that's illegal in the US but it continues to happen. Lawsuits are costly and most single parents don't have resources to pursue a lawsuit. It's a catch22 businesses are willling to risk. 

Raising a child that doesn't have special needs is enough work in itself, multiple that workload by 10 if you have a special needs child, maybe more if they're profoundly challenged. 

Just kind of an aside: 

The spoiled girl requested a Sony Vaio on her Xmas list, unless you have $300 or $400 you just want to piddle away buy a Toshiba instead. I just replaced a 5 year Sony with a Toshiba for the simple reason they both had exactly the same capabilities but a difference in price of $400. 

The Sony was a great little machine but paying $400 for the name was ridiculous. 

Just a bit of advice for the holidays :-)  

It's expensive enough without paying more than you need to.... 

The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is the basis for the EEO, is a US law not Canadian:  Nancy lives in Canada so US law does not pertain to her situation. 

I'm sitting here looking at the Human Resource Management textbook so if you want to argue this: argue with Mathis and Jackson 10th edition :-/ 

Why are we arguing about this? Laws are broken every day and there are still neanderthals in business that ask these questions either thru ignorance or arrogance. 

If one of our Canadian posters would be so kind to inform us of discrimination laws in Canada, I for one would appreciative of the info :-) 

The original petty flip post (not by you) was directed at Nancy who lives in Canada so what's illegal in the US has no bearing on her situation. 

Yes it is illegal, and it's illegal because there are still cretins in business that discriminate anyway. If we lived in a world where people behaved in a fair, rational, reasonable manner, we wouldn't need laws to force them to behave in an appropriate fashion. Yes you can sue them but you have to have the resources to hire an attorney that will pursue your case. How many lawyers do you know that will do anything without money up front? Won't happen and that's why it continues some businesses continue the practice. We can make all the laws we want but we still have to deal with human beings that try to get around them. 

OK that's enough of that stuff and I believe I'll use the HR book for fire fuel after finals tomorrow :-)