Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site boulder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!boulder!jon From: jon@boulder.UUCP (Jonathan Corbet) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Who's watching the kids? Message-ID: <385@boulder.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 23:18:28 EDT Article-I.D.: boulder.385 Posted: Mon Jul 8 23:18:28 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 15-Jul-85 07:19:40 EDT Distribution: net Organization: National Center for Atmospheric Research Lines: 17 > 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? There are a couple cases at NCAR that I believe are good solutions to this problem. The first couple consists of two scientists, both employed at NCAR. What they do is stagger their work hours so that somebody is available most of the time, and the kid is in day care the rest of the time. The problem with this approach is that it can seriously impact on the amount of time the couple has to spend with each other, which is hard on a marriage. The second case involves just the husband, who worked in my group. Here, the boss simply let him take a MicroVAX home, and he somehow managed to work and deal with the kids at the same time. -- Jonathan Corbet National Center for Atmospheric Research, Field Observing Facility {seismo|hplabs}!hao!boulder!jon (Thanks to CU CS department)