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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Education---Catch 'em early
  • Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:20:41 -0700

Toni Hawryluk wrote:

(snip)...Mothers need to be home with their children, not having to work so
that they can put a meal on the table OR choosing to work instead of being
home. We do NOT need more Staples mothers! Lynda

Lynda, you are a "voice crying in the
wilderness" because the number of male-less "families" keeps increasing annually (who keeps producing these
cretins that think scoring is macho
but providing for children is "women's
work ??) so how can women "be home with their children" ?
Toni


tvoivozhd---that died in the 1950's. Worker productivity has soared, but it has been entirely siphoned off by management and stockholders myopically focussed on the next quarter. The future of the company and society is given short shrift. Not many Teddy Roosevelts or FDR's around lately to reverse economic and societal change occurring in the last forty years. Now in the vast majority of two-parent families, both parents work to pay off the inflated mortgage and Mom races around before 0800 and after 1700 to an expensive daycare center which inevitable is far, far from home. The Soviets who had a similar problem of bringing women into the workforce had a vastly superior system---numerous daycare centers only a few blocks apart.

Now having Mom work does have one significant advantage---she is family insurance. If Dad is injured, dies or disappears for any reason, the children still have a lifeline---her income. It's the other side of the Mom-stays-at home-taking-care-of-the-children coin---can't have both sides of the coin simultaneously in use..


And of course there has been societal breakdown too---not totally, but principally confined to the ghettos, where the factory next door which provided Dad with a reasonably good income, is now an empty shell---and the Republicrats couldn't care less about rectifying that rectifyable problem. So Dad votes with his feet against loss of income, loss of status, loss of self-respect and the kids become one-parent latchkey kids running the street. Really poor raw material to feed into the school system,.which more often than not is a combat zone instead of a learning center.







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