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To: epicure who wrote (27089)	8/24/2006 10:45:10 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541465

Reasons vs. excuses are a matter of perception. I don't have to accept your characterization and you don't have to accept mine. I can't help it that what boils down to "I'm too busy" sounds more like an excuse than a reason to me. Evidently you don't. Whether termed an excuse or reason, you seem to accept "I'm too busy to be a good parent" as exculpatory. I obviously agree that we can't control who gets to be parents. So tell me, what do you think the state needs to do, that will be effective, to protect children from injurious influences? As for my Clinton reference, you need to lighten up<g> Your post contained an undercurrent regarding the economic necessity for parents to work so hard today. Given your freely expressed political views, I thought a reminder that high school seniors today would have been of the fairy tale reading age during the Clinton era was in order. Abdication of parental responsibility is not a new problem.