From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxj!mhuxi!mhuxv!burl!sb1!ll1!otuxa!we13!lime!orion!ariel!vax135!cornell!gil
Newsgroups: net.women
Title: Working (selfish) Mothers
Article-I.D.: cornell.3960
Posted: Fri Jan 28 18:13:10 1983
Received: Mon Jan 31 03:45:33 1983

I don't understand why the title of this article was Working (selfish) Mothers
and not Working (selfish) Parents.  Isn't it the responsibility of both parents
to care for, nurture, educate, etc. their children?  Why must the mother be
singled out solely because she is the one that bears the child \before/ it is
born.  If working parents are selfish then most fathers have been selfish for
a long, long time.

I wish there were more places of employment which provided parents with daycare
service; if these services could be provided at the place of employment, so much
the better, because then all employees whose children were being so cared for
could participate in the care.  I realize that this would require a drastic
change in most workplaces, but isn't it worth it?