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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
  • To: knat AT sprintmail.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Education---Catch 'em early
  • Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:36:58 -0700

Kathyann Natkie wrote:

Toni Hawryluk wrote:

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" ?


How about a less litigious society where a woman can bring her child to
work with her?

Kathyann, who was lucky enough to have both worlds


tvoivozhd---now THAT is a good idea---litigiousness has nothing to do with it, and all to do with a society that takes kids to work---in the tribal past, out gathering roots, nuts and seeds---that practice lost in Western society, but still alive and well in Chinese society. My Taiwanese factory-owning friends ALWAYS had a daycare center in the building where Mom could bring her kids and elderly parents and know they were properly observed and supervised while she ran a machine or office equipment.
In addition, the factory always had a barracks for workers coming in from rural areas. I noted Taiwan employees hated compulsory time off---there was no overtime pay, but they wanted every second of their time to yield an income they could tuck away for their own prospective business or invest in someone else's new enterprise---they would walk the streets examining the offers to investors posted in windows of closet-sized factories, discuss the matter with the owners and put their investment capital where they felt it was likely to yield the most income with least risk.






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