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From: regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard)
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Subject: kids in restaurants
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Date: Fri, 12-Apr-85 10:48:56 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 12 10:48:56 1985
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To parents:

>Parents always miss this point:  Having a kid is a choice.
>. . .It is in a sense an insurance policy that I buy for your kid.
>The bottom line is I have to pay with no say.

So does everybody who has social security taken out of their paychecks.
I pay not only for my kids, for my parents, and for myself, but for you,
too, Jeff.

>After you have the kid I'll be behind you 100% for the kids sake.

Somehow, I don't believe that.

>I just want you to consider the real imposition you make on the
>rest of society who chooses not to bilk the public for their own
>selfish ends. flame off.
>                                   Jeff Hagen
>                                   decvax!bunker!jrh

I'm afraid that I can't consider the motivation to have children a "bilking"
of the public.  Think a minute.  If your place of employment offers tuition
remimbursement, and one employee "chooses" to use that option, is s/he
"bilking" the other employees that don't?

There is a recognized need within the governing body that a (let's go for
the gusto) righteous younger generation is necessary for the health of the
nation.  That some members of the society choose to bear and raise members
of that generation is a personal choice, granted, but in the big picture,
it is also an economic and social necessity.  Perhaps it is the childless
who impose on the rest of us by NOT bearing and raising persons who will
become "tax paying individuals" that you feel are so advantageous.  After
all, the system functions with children, but it wouldn't function for very
long without them.

I'm very sorry kids leave beer cans on your lawn.  I'll endeavor to make
sure mine will not do that, even though she pays the tax on the beer that
pays for your. . . . .:-)
				Adrienne Regard