From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!wb2!houxz!houxi!houxa!houxb!houxq!houxo!wakeup Newsgroups: net.women Title: Re: another side to children Article-I.D.: houxo.143 Posted: Wed Jan 26 10:00:38 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 07:17:33 1983 References: sdcsvax.87 Only my father worked, my mother was a "housewife", I am the last child of three. Eventhough both my parents did not work, my fater was and is a very selfish person similar to some people writing on this net. HE always came first, my mother and the kids last. From experience I know this is no way to raise children. To be good parents there must be an element of self sacrifice, ie the kids come first most of the time. I see in myself some selfishness and my wife and I have long discussions about having childern because I question if we can sacrifice enough. Just because both parents work does not mean they are bad parents. In fact most of the families in my home town all adults had to work to afford to live but raised "normal" children. The bad thing I see are these selfcentered people having children, for what reason I do not know. Do they understand what they are doing to their kids? Most likely they will grow up resenting their parents and being overly selfish themselves and continue propigating this poor attitude.