I'd prefer that we find a way to fit the system to mothers, not make mothers fit the system. Because when we put the brunt of it all on women, as we pretty much do now, I think we end up with some crap results for children AND women (probably, I care most about children). Do I want women flower arranging for the rest of their lives? No, not really. But if the alternative is intelligent educated women having few to no children, and children being unsupervised, and raising themselves, (and this does seem to be the alternative), I'm not happy about that. I'm also not happy with the fact that poorer women, who aren't educated, also have to take jobs, and can't raise their children (even though I'm less interested in the uneducated having children, I'd still like them there to supervise them). Same goes for the single mother, and the 22% of fatherless children. That's a huge problem- and I'd like to see soem social engineering to fix it. At the moment a lot of the social pressures favor dads leaving- and it need not be so.
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