Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!ISM780!jeff From: jeff@ISM780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Mother needs no excuse Message-ID: <15@ISM780.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 00:31:32 EST Article-I.D.: ISM780.15 Posted: Sun Dec 2 00:31:32 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 06:39:42 EST Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:osu-eddie:-11900:ISM780:22500002:000:713 Nf-From: ISM780!jeff Nov 29 13:52:00 1984 > There are some (most visibly feminist leaders) who are saying > that parents really don't know how best to raise their children, indicating > that we should turn the job over to "experts". In THE SECOND STAGE, Betty Friedan explains that the whole point of the women's movement wasn't to get every woman into the marketplace working her way up to corporate ladder, but to show that women have a choice about what they do. It is equally valid to exercise that choice by consciously deciding to stay home and raise children, as it is to be the chairman of GM. Claiming that feminism demands women go out and work misses the whole point of the movement by substituting a new status quo for the old one.