Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!cmu-cs-pt!cmu-cs-edu1!rafferty From: rafferty@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA (Colin Rafferty) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Who's watching the kids? Message-ID: <395@cmu-cs-edu1.ARPA> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 06:47:52 EDT Article-I.D.: cmu-cs-e.395 Posted: Sat Jul 6 06:47:52 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jul-85 05:32:41 EDT Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 25 I have a question for the people out here on this net, for both women and men. How should you decide on who stays home and brings up the children, when and if you have any? I know that there is no choice about who carries it to term, but in the jobs that everyone here seems to have, that wouldn't make a difference except at the very end of the nine months. My main questions are, do you feel it's the woman's job? Do you feel that since it's always been "women's work", the man should do it? Should it be the one making less money, the one with smaller prospects for advancement, the one who would prefer doing it? The one who would do a better job? This is a straightforward question that I'm asking, and I'd like to hear some of the views of the older (more experienced) people, since I am only 20, want to have children some day (not too soon, though), and would like to hear what other people think about this. Please note, I am assuming that both want to have children, since the question is who puts in the time, not whether the time should be put in. ---- Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }