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From: pc@hplabsb.UUCP (Patricia Collins)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.politics,net.kids,net.social
Subject: Re: Kids suffer in Shangri La
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Date: Wed, 2-May-84 00:14:45 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  2 00:14:45 1984
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	I don't claim that others should use my standards of measure,
but I would propose that one need not take seriously any stated
philsophy/ethic that the proponent does not live by.  

	I cannot take to heart any person's condemnation of the 
parent with a career when that person has chosen a career.  

	By the way: anyone who thinks that providing other care
providers for part of your child's care means that the parent is not
"a full time parent" is mistaken!  It only means that the parent
is also a career person.  (That same person may also be a spouse,
friend, housekeeper, poet, carpenter...without being damned as a
"part-time parent.")

	Life seems to be a process of taking into consideration all
of the pros and cons of one's decisions, then in the best of 
circumstances making decisions which maximize the Quality of Life.
When you add up all of the pros and cons, you may weigh each 
considerations differently than I and, therefore, come to different
conclusions.  But please don't try to claim that your weighting
has some absolute Truth associated with it!  Such egocentrism is
ludicrous.

					Patricia Collins
					hplabs