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To: Dwight E. Karlsen who wrote (14254)	4/19/1998 2:08:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

Oh, what a load of whatever!!! There was a time in the early eighties when it was very uncool for college-educated mothers to stay home with their babies. It will surprise you immensely, I am sure, to discover that I was one of the mothers who insisted on staying home with my baby, and had arguments about it every Saturday at the park, the day the working mommies came with their babies as well. Unfortunately, when any political movement is brand new, like the feminist movement, which is positive in that it advocates for equality for women, it is human nature to be a little shrill about things. Within a few years women realized the couldn't really have it all, and now most mothers who can possibly live on one salary in the family do stay home until their children are in school, or the father adapts to some sort of flexible schedule so the children are usually with a parent. However, it is a myth that mothers have always stayed home with their children. Only in the fifties and sixties was this commonly done. Historically, women have worked somewhere--the fields, the factories, scrubbing laundry against rocks, gathering berries--for ten or twelve hours a day. You have idealized a trend that lasted two decades!!! You are jaded and condescending if you think most women listen to pop stars. They listen to their hearts, and it does not feel good to most women to leave a baby or small child in day care, if they have alternatives. However, many working women do not, and they should not be condemned as bad mothers.