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From: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Who's watching the kids?
Message-ID: <322@timeinc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 00:05:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: timeinc.322
Posted: Wed Jul 17 00:05:45 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 12:02:16 EDT
References: <593@mtung.UUCP> <307@timeinc.UUCP> <148@dcc1.UUCP>
Reply-To: greenber@timeinc.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Organization: Time, Inc. - New York
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Summary: 

In article <148@dcc1.UUCP> unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c) writes:
(Quoting me):
>>
>>I would hope that you would see childrearing as being a joint responsibility,
>>and none of this "you take care of [him,her] ---  I did my job" crap!
>>Aren't you glad *your* parents didn't have this fucked-up attitude?
>
>  Excuse me?.. I believe that the attitude above WAS the attitude of a lot
>of our parents, only DAD was the one saying it!! (His job was over with
>quickly and hers took a number of years...)
>

Right.  How could I have forgotten that Dad was busy working to help
pay for my diapers and the mortgage and the babysitters and the medical
bills and the life insurance --- all because he was selfish.  How
silly of me.

There is the possibility that, although childraising is a joint
responsibility, the duties do not have to be split down the line.
I know that my Dad (a wonderful guy, BTW) would have loved to spend more
time with the kids.  But he was busy jet-setting from one aerospace
firm to another trying to pay the bills -- so Mom wouldn't have to
work.

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