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Subject: Kids suffer in Shangri La
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 22:06:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 20 22:06:49 1984
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The following was printed in the "Letters to the Editor" section of the
San Jose Mercury News, April 13. Reprinted without permission. Opinions
expressed are those of the original author (whom I do not know) and
probably reflect those of this author.

			Kids suffer in Shangri La

	We live in the age of materialism. The double-income family is
	the norm and the quality of early life has disappeared. The
	recent horror stories of nightmarish day-care facilities
	illustrate the price modern society pays for its trends.

	Whether it's for strictly monetary reasons or intellectual
	stimulation and "growth," the fact that we turn over our
	children, our future, to strangers from six to six, is
	symptomatic of acute repression of reality or "the end justifies
	the means" pragmatism.

	The Shangri-La we have created -- the two-car version -- has
	withered babyhoods strewn alongside the driveway. With the
	pledge of parenthood should come the total commitment, albeit
	sometimes tediously unrewarding, of a block of time.

					-- Jo Kearley, San Jose
-- 
				The Ice Floe of Larry Bickford
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