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To: robnhood who wrote (33760)11/3/2000 8:22:42 PM
From: flatsville  Read Replies (1) of 436258
 
>>>It now takes two members working to not quite make ends meet. Of course it's called equality, not slavery. ho ho ho<<<

rrman--

What are you saying?

That working women have reduced men's pay so that now both spouses have to work?

That implies that women gleefully left home in search of employment (which some did and do.)

or

Perhaps they were driven from the home to help support their families (many were and are.)

Interesting chicken-egg problem, no?

Nonetheless it doesn't change the fact that few single people and only a small minority of families can have a member quit work to take care of a sick parent for a prolonged period.

Does that make things worse rather than better?

See I don't believe the myth that families took care of the aged in the past better than they do now. The problem was different in nature back then. Many more people died younger in their "old age" than now. They weren't slapped on ventilators and sent home with IVs, repeatedly, like they are now. A hospital stay was longer in length and people came home less debilitated or they didn't come home at all. Or they never saw the inside of the hospital to begin with like my grandparents on my mother's side and her aunts and uncles. There was no money for a hospital so they died miserably at home. The pre-Medicare generation. That's how they got taken care of at home by their family.

I think it makes things different...not worse...just different.
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