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To: Lane3 who wrote (4998)	11/6/2005 8:15:15 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542115

Right These are middle class kids. Houses where I live are so expensive that two working teachers probably couldn't afford them- I think mothers probably feel they don't have a choice, and quality child care (especially for older children) is expensive, and hard to find. So lots of kids are home alone, and aren't eating well, aren't being supervised, and aren't getting the kind of discipline they need. You need to actually BE there to parent- and I guess according to you these people did have the "choice" not to have kids. But it seems more healthy, as a society, to support them with more time to parent. "It definitely wouldn't be that we should pay them to have children so they can stay home and screw their kids up 24/7." Not supporting parents who want to spend more time with their kids doesn't strike me as supporting them in screwing up their kids. That's pretty much what I said up front- and that's where we differ. I think many parents who work would like to parent their children more, but can't, for financial reasons. You assume the parents are incompetent.