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To: James R. Barrett who wrote (66273)	12/12/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

LOL, it just happens that I had a job in college at a day care center that took kids 8 weeks - 3 years. A lot of fine, happy kids. I declare any man with an IQ under 160 to contain unfit sperm... why is this so? Because I said so!

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (66273)	12/12/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I happen to agree with you- but I wouldn't make it a law or anything. It is just my opinion that love for very small children is shown through doing (because their world is totally concrete and filled with either comfort or discomfort and people are identified with one fo these sensations) and doing is done with time- and if you limit time with your kids you severely limit what you can do for them- and if you limit what you do for them you limit their appreciation of your love.

To: James R. Barrett who wrote (66273)	12/12/1999 5:36:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

..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...