[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: "You're Just Selfish!" (WAS moved from Main List: on not having children)

[alex fox]

In this day and age, the father and mother are/or HAVE to be, equal care-givers, and both parents have to work to support the family. Does that make the father enlisting in the service "child abuse"? Possibly the father has a job that is better suited to time with the kids. The mom possibly has the availability to do the job that has all the government benefits, which will help the entire family. IMHO. 
 
Alex Fox

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" <catlady at wicca.net> wrote:
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "lucky_kari" <lucky_kari at y...> 
wrote:
> I want to scream every Mother's Day in particular when military 
> mothers of very young children are interviewed. I am firmly of the 
> belief that you cannot have a five month old baby and be fighting
> a war in Iraq. That is child abuse, in my humble opinion. I can see 
> why women would want both things, but I think they have a duty to 
> choose. And to try to have both is selfishness at its height. 
> Absolute cruelty to another human being. 

It is my impression that most of the young mothers of young children 
in the military first had the child, then enlisted because she needed 
a job to support her child, and the military paid best with the best 
benefits. Many of the other jobs available to young people with no 
college don't pay enough for even one person to live on, never mind 
support the baby.


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