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To: Carolyn who wrote (2040)	12/8/2003 8:48:58 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

It sounds like your issues are more economic than cultural though. Am I reading too much into your post? Because in my area, we have a lot of stay at home husbands now (I live in silicon valley and there is a lot of unemployment) and this was not an option even 15 years ago really. If the wife has a job, the husband stays home, if the husband has a job, wife stays home or maybe both work. There is absolutely no cultural stigma attached to any of this (ignoring the job loss but there isn't much wrt that either). In terms of it costing too much to raise a child and the declining middle class, thats another matter we agree on.

To: Carolyn who wrote (2040)	12/9/2003 7:59:21 AM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

Throughout most of mankind's history, up until just a few short decades ago, home-making was almost universally looked upon as a profession deemed more important to the family and deserving higher esteem than having a career. Some folks still feel that way, but they get shouted down by the left, who are intolerant of anyone who doesn't agree with them. Having a career and equal opportunity should be an option for women, but the women's movement has chastized and pressured all women to believe that they were worthless if they didn't. That is wrong. Just a couple of issues that the women's movement has brought us: 1. Latch key children, raising themselves, with all the attendant social and behavioral problems within and without the family. It shouldn't "take a village," unless there isn't a family. 2. Inflation -- Higher family incomes from those that have two workers who are bidding against one-worker families for houses, cars, and everything else in the market place, drives up prices. It puts pressure on nearly all families to have two incomes to compete, whether they want to or not. 3. Women's health issues -- Women can now "brag" that their rates of heart attack, stroke, and other diseases rival those of men. Now, that's "equality."