On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:53:44PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > working two lower paying jobs to make ends meet. However, the people > who are in such situations are completely dwarfed by the number of > people who have the husband and wife both working and unwilling to give > up their leisure time to actually bother raising their children. Heh, you must know my aunt and uncle. ;) My uncle is a Baptist minister, which is a full-time job. Understandable, that's his calling, he can't give that up. My aunt is a receptionist at a college. She doesn't have to work, my uncle makes good money. Why does she then? So she can afford to go on shopping sprees every weekend or so. My cousins were dumped into daycare as soon as they hit the minimum age (6 weeks-- I kid you not), and are the most undisciplined kids I've ever seen. Preachers kids are almost always bad, but these kids are the worst. They're always getting in trouble for punching and biting other kids (including each other-- sibling rivalry is one thing, a ten-year-old giving his 5-year-old sister a black eye so he can have her poptart is something else). Why? I think (from what I've seen of them and other daycare-raised kids) because they've been raised by daycare for the most part with little contact with their parents (especially their mother-- they get 'annoying and it's inconvenient for her'). So, yeah, people need to raise their kids, make sure they get a good education, and quit dumping them on daycare, school, and society. If and when I have kids, they will never see the inside of a daycare center if I can help it. My $0.02 USD. -- Vikki Roemer Homepage: http://neuromancer.homelinux.com/ Registered Linux user #280021 http://counter.li.org/ Linux. Where do you want to go tomorrow? PGP fingerprint: 0A3E 0AE4 CCD9 FF31 B4BB C859 2DE1 B1D8 5CE0 1578 Keyserver: http://pgp.mit.edu/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GAT d---(-) s: a19 C++++(++) UL++++ P+ L+++>++++ E- W++ N+ o? K- w--() O? M? V?(-) PS+(+++) PE(++) Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5 X+ R*(?) tv-- b+++(++) DI+ D--(?) G e-(*)>+++++ h! r x* ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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