..It is my opinion that any woman who has a baby and then turns it over to a day care center when the baby is six weeks old so that she can continue her career is an UNFIT mother. If a mother can't stay home with her child until it is five years, she has no business having a baby to begin with.
Jim, would you still say that if you replaced "so that she can continue her career" with "so that she can work"? After all, a lot of women work because they have to -- not to buy "extras," but to buy "essentials." You can sniff, and say, "they had no business having babies to begin with," but they did have their babies, and now they are responsible for them. Would you rather they had abortions? Or gave up their babies for adoption (even if they are married)? Or went on welfare?
I am among those mothers who had to go back to work six weeks after I had a baby (my oldest son), even though I absolutely did not WANT to! At the time, we were poor as church mice, living in a cold-water flat; my husband was an immigrant, with old parents to take care of too. We didn't turn the baby over to a day care center (I don't even think there were any such things in that long-ago day), but we did fill in with baby-sitters, not all of whom you would have found completely acceptable. Fortunately, he had the sunniest disposition in the world, and survived the "child abuse" with no apparent scars at all... |
