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  • From: "beverly" <beverly AT bidumup.com>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] child labor
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:28:38 -0800

Lovely,

Beverly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] child labor


> Yes, if my daughter is going to work and earn wages, she has some
> responsibilities to learn.
>
> No, she doesn't pay rent. She is a minor and she is my parental
> responsibility. I am the residential parent of a 17-year-old girl and
don't
> think I forget it for a moment. She has a curfew and I enforce it. I
feed
> her, I buy most of her clothing and I pay the mortgage, taxes and the
> insurance on the vehicles she drives. They are my vehicles, afterall.
>
> She wants to go to Europe next year. I think she'll appreciate that trip
> more if she earns at least part of that $3000 ticket. So, yes. She must
> earn part of the money herself. If she works for her dad, she'll earn
some.
> If she works for me, she'll earn some. She has already set aside over
$1500
> from her own efforts. I think we'll end up providing the rest. She can
> keep right on working to earn the luxuries of life. She is fortunate as
> hell.
>
> Nothing wrong with teaching a young adult, that the things you want
require
> effort and not simply rich parents. By world standards we are filthy
rich.
> We own two homes, we have 3 vehicles and several thousand dollars in
> investments. Our daughter doesn't need to worry about anything, does she?
>
> She must learn to earn her way in life. Regardless of what her parents
have
> accomplished.
>
> She recently got notice of a $32,000 scholarship from the college she most
> wanted to attend. A feather in her cap. I'm proud of her ability and
> fortitude to have worked hard and earned it. Not because her parents are
> wealthy enough to afford it on their own. We are. She owes us nothing
> except that we sure did provide the developmental environment for being
> responsible for the outcomes in her life. But SHE did the work. She got
> the grades, she showed her mastery of the subjects that made her eligible
> for that scholarship. Neither of us ever put our jobs or our ability to
> provide for the family ahead of our child's development.
>
> I feel no sacrifice. I love that child and appreciate what she has
> accomplished. That is her own award. I didn't do it for her.
>
> I'm not ever going to take that away from her. Or keep the wages she
might
> have earned if she didn't get up at 4AM and help me cut herbs for a 6AM
> delivery. She earned it. Frankly she could have done it at other
> businesses. Not just mine.
>
> Thus, I pay her for her efforts. And so does the business her dad works
> for. It's all the same to me.
>
> Del Williams
> Farmer in the Del
> Clifton IL
>
>
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