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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
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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.

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            Colin Rafferty { Math Department, Carnegie-Mellon University }