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From: keithe@teklabs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: remarks on remarks
Message-ID: <2832@teklabs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Apr-84 07:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 26 07:34:00 1984
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I got the biggest kick out of the line that went something like "I
don't have kids, but when I do I know my dedication will be 100%."

That's an extremely easy statement to make (about the 100% dedication)
but it only proves that you don't have kids yet. I grant you that you
may approach a high level of interactivity/decication with your first
child, but when number 2 or number 3 come along there just plain isn't
enough time in the day to carry out (what I infer from) your 100%
dedication statement. I could elaborate, but (1) people without kids
probably don't understand/believe it, and (2) people with kids do
understand and don't need to be told (again).

As for the fathers staying home and the mothers working: when my wife
gets to the point in her career that her income is adequate to pay all
the bills I'll quit in a minute to stay home and take care of both the
kids and the house. [But now I'm guilty of the same kind of statement
I'm arguing against in the above paragraph:  I don't stay home to take
care of the kids and the house yet, but when I do I know my dedication
will be 100%.]

keith ericson at teklabs

	"The opinions expressed by the husband of this home
	 are not necessarily those of the management."