Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfclq!al From: al@hpfclq.UUCP (al) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <72100003@hpfclq.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 17:53:00 EST Article-I.D.: hpfclq.72100003 Posted: Fri Dec 14 17:53:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 06:35:51 EST References: <119@osu-eddie.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:osu-eddie:-11900:hpfclq:72100003:000:963 Nf-From: hpfclq!al Dec 10 14:53:00 1984 Usually I just read thru the net without saying much but this one hit home. It amazes me when people say "oh, she doesn't work -- she's just a housewife". AAAGH! My wife and I made a conscious decision: she stays home to raise our three children while I work. And when you tell people that, they think 1) I'm a cruel man because I only let my wife raise kids and 2) she couldn't get a job if she had to. I also wonder. Since when is raising children in a secure, stable environment such a novelty? Since when is it more important to have two cars and vacation in Bermuda than provide a home for the next generation? Not meaning to offend, but my wife and I left California after a history of five generations there because we felt like we were freaks. We have been much happier here in Colorado where children are treated as a normal part of life instead of something you do to impress your office partners. al "oops, did i say that?" stone hpfcla!al