Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mit-vax.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!think!mit-eddie!mit-vax!csdf
From: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: My first baby
Message-ID: <547@mit-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 6-Aug-85 08:57:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-vax.547
Posted: Tue Aug  6 08:57:56 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Aug-85 02:29:33 EDT
References: <3484@cornell.UUCP> <472@tymix.UUCP>
Reply-To: csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe)
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 34

In article <472@tymix.UUCP> whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst) writes:
>A husband does not have the right to tell his wife what to do or how to
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>bring up their child!
	  ^^^^^^^^^^^
	
I would like to deviate a bit from the personal background of this
particular posting (in THAT light: Congratulations!). As a future
husband and (hopefully) father, I'm a little disturbed by Pam's
seemingly contradictory attitude.

In an age where the wife can leave the home, and baby, to pursue a
career, I think it a bit sexist to insinuate the father cannot make
childrearing descisions. 

In the case of an unwed mother, I don't see how the father can claim
such rights, but a married couple assumes a FATHER as well as a mother.

After all, when the baby is weened, what is the difference between a
mother or father taking the nurturing role? (Don't throw Fruedian sex
roles at me, I know them already!).

In any case, I would hope both parents would share the responsibility as
well as the rewards of raising children.

-- 
Charles Forsythe
CSDF@MIT-VAX
"You are a stupid fool."
-Wang Zeep

"I'm not a fool!"
-The Hated One