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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42766)	12/8/2003 3:42:59 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Children in developed countries have two-salary parents and we don't go there and tell the women to stay home with their kids because this is good for thrm. We don't dont do that because we know that their affluence is bcecause both parents work. Neither we don't want to look to advance our case by putting te burden in someone else.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42766)	12/9/2003 12:26:17 AM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

So, in the meantime an entire generation or two of children learn to become hard-hearted survivors & inflict the emotional deprivation of such a childhood on others. My mother grew up on a farm. She was expected to work from the time she could walk. When my mother told stories about her childhood on the farm she spoke of it as if it was some wonderful joyous place. I don't doubt is was a hard life, but she loved it and she missed it. My father who lived in the city was expected to work from the age of nine. He was out at 3 am selling newspapers on the street corner. Never once did he speak with bitterness about these things. He was taught from an early age that men were expected to work and contribute to the family finances, so he worked. Me, I always wanted to work. I started a little business knitting Barbie doll sweaters in second grade with my sister. We did tiny little mittens to match and sold them at school. At twelve I remember going around to every business in town asking for any kind of work. Mostly I got errands to run for change, babysitting jobs until I was old enough to get an official job. My sister married a man with a lot of family money and a very successful family business. Her husband's father started the business with nothing. My brother-in-law who went to the finest private schools was expected to work in the biz in his free time from a fairly young age. Work he did, even while they lived in one of the most expensive houses on the Main Line. He expected my niece and nephew to work as well in the biz and they did. In between soccer games and girl scouts, they both worked in the biz from the time they were nine or so. These are kids who grew up with every financial advantage that modern society could offer, yet they worked when they were too young to get jobs! Now that they are adults they are in the process of taking over the business from my brother-in-law. Never, not once, even in the deepest of teenage rebellions did they ever express any bitterness about being expected to work, they loved it. Why is it that we have this sort of disconnect with work and children, that we think they are better off playing with toys until adulthood? How do they get from being children to adults? How is it that people think that their children can go through their entire childhood without carrying any kind of family financial responsibility and then magically at the age of 20 or 35 become responsible working adults able to take care of their own families? I see a lot of adults from my generation with a sort of arrested development because their parents provided everything for them and still are. My husband has friends who are approaching 50 still living at home with Mom doing the cooking and the cleaning. Talk about the mistakes of history! Some day people will look back on this era and wonder what came over people that they thought that children should be kept from working until they were adults. Imagine an animal in the wild raising their young that way.