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To: epicure who wrote (5002)	11/6/2005 8:58:13 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542134

Well, that might work if you could give the incentive to selected women. They can do a lot of things in Singapore that we can't do here. But there are lots of things we could do if our laws enabled us to discriminate in that fashion, to pick winners and losers.

To: epicure who wrote (5002)	11/7/2005 8:45:03 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542134

Having children isn't a lifetime occupation. Even if you have several, eventually they've all grown up and moved on to the next phase of their lives, and then you really need to do something else with your life. I don't mean "you" per se, I mean "one." I think the biggest incentive for intelligent women to have children is some kind of support for fitting it all in -- education, child-bearing, child-rearing, employment, giving back to the community. That's been the hardest thing for me, but I knew it was going to be hard from the beginning, since I decided on law relatively late (30) and had my kids relatively late (33 and 35). There was no way to spend a lot of time with my kids and have a standard-issue career in someone else's law office. The time just wasn't there, even if I wanted to go that route. Coming down with rheumatoid arthritis wasn't in the game plan either. But that's life, isn't it? You do the best with what you have to work with. Still, it's expecting too much to expect only mothers to make the adjustments -- even though that's usually the way it works out. But to expect you to spend the rest of your life, after the kids are grown, arranging flowers or volunteering as a docent -- really, isn't that asking an awful lot? After you've done the duty you describe and borne your children for the good of England or mankind or the gene pool or whatever.