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To: Grainne who wrote (14082)	12/6/1997 11:42:00 AM
From: James R. Barrett	Respond to of 108807

>>"These societies realize that the health of individual families represents the entire future of their societies. America, on the other hand, does not prioritize children, instead for the most part seeing them as little consumers and as financial burdens. Our public schools are getting worse and worse, as taxpayers choose to spend less and less on them, and as mothers are forced to work because of economic realities, and many dads have two jobs. Oh, I forgot the easy availability of guns, so disturbed children acting out can blow away their friends or classmates, or themselves, readily (when they are not learning to play football)."<< Have you ever thought about leaving the country permanently to get away from all the bad things in the USA that upset you so much? Jim

To: Grainne who wrote (14082)	12/7/1997 1:34:00 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Why don't you think that children shouldn't read until they are seven, Christine? My son was reading at 3, and really seemed to enjoy it. When we went shopping, he would pester us for books! I am really curious how my foster daughter's son is going to turn out. He, and my foster daughter live with us. She doesn't smoke or drink or go out and the father is about the worst that you can imagine. How she had his child is a long story, but he is not part of the picture any more. She has not heard from him for almost 2 years. Some of the stuff that has been verified is being a drug addict, dealing drugs, burglary, rape, incest with his 12 year old cousin, stabbing family members on several occasions, and assault and battery. The whole family also lives in roach infested filth, and about half of them are retarded. Brandon, his son, has never seen his father, and his mother doesn't mention him. Brandon calls me dada,which we are trying to break him of. We are trying to get him to say papa insead, but he just smirks, and calls me dada. The reason that I brought all of this up is that I was very worried that he would be retarded, or have a birth defect. It turns out that he is very cute with blond curly hair, and he seems smart for his age. He has a box full of little books that my wife has picked up at rummage sales. Every day he wants to be read to several times for about 15 minutes each, before he gets antsy. Every night he jumps on my lap with 3 or 4 books. His favorite is Ernie from Sesame Street. I am really getting tired of reading "My name is Ernie, yup that's me. My name begins and ends with E", but that's one he wants to hear every night! I try my best to sound interested in the story. Do you think that he will have some of his father's traits? We raised 3 foster children, but we got those at age 5 or so. By then they had already assumed some of the characteristics of their parents, which stayed with them for life. I'll do my best to help him be a good person. Del