Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dcc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!dcc1!unixcorn From: unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Who's watching the kids? Message-ID: <148@dcc1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 14-Jul-85 14:37:32 EDT Article-I.D.: dcc1.148 Posted: Sun Jul 14 14:37:32 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jul-85 08:24:44 EDT References: <593@mtung.UUCP> <307@timeinc.UUCP> Reply-To: unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c) Organization: DeKalb Community College, Clarkston GA Lines: 29 Summary: In article <307@timeinc.UUCP> greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg) writes: >In article <593@mtung.UUCP> jdh@mtung.UUCP (Julia Harper) writes: >>....the baby. Yep, I'd put me ahead of the welfare of the baby. >>Enough of this shit about the woman always having to choose between >>herself and the baby! I say to women... You choose yourself. Let >>your man do that choosing. If he chooses to put the kid in a >>day care center instead of quitting his job, let that be on his >>head! >> > >I would hope that you would see childrearing as being a joint responsibility, >and none of this "you take care of [him,her] --- I did my job" crap! >Aren't you glad *your* parents didn't have this fucked-up attitude? Excuse me?.. I believe that the attitude above WAS the attitude of a lot of our parents, only DAD was the one saying it!! (His job was over with quickly and hers took a number of years...) Childrearing OUGHT to be a joint responsibilty, some times it is. Unfortunately, there are still a goodly number of men who don't put in the amount of time with their children as do their wives ( or SOs) -- unixcorn (alias m. gould) "there's a unicorn in the garden and he's eating a lily" gatech!dcc1!unixcorn