From: mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson)
Subject: Re: The March in D.C. (NEW SIGNATURE!)
Date: 14 Apr 92 10:56:02 CDT

In article <1992Apr13.212509.20522@cs.dal.ca> franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
>In <1992Apr13.122856.4632@hemlock.cray.com> mon@cray.com (Muriel Nelson) writes:

>>If a child is in daycare, it's not exactly the same thing as being a
>>"latch-key child".
>  Sheez Muriel - do you think that clue fairy stuff is funnY? ugh
>In any case- the concept behind the latch-key child which I was trying to
>approach was the lack of parental presence and guidance. 

Among other things, Steve, you are talking about two different,
though possibly overlapping, _age groups_ of children when you
discuss daycare and latchkey kids. Daycare can begin with infancy.
Once a child is old enough for public schooling, privately contracted 
care may be obtained for the additional hours while parents work.
This is more commonly referred to as 'after-school-care'.

'Latch-key' children are those who are old enough to attend school,
let themselves in with a key, and look after themselves until 
parents are available.

Most reasonable persons feel that there is an appropriate age
for leaving kids on their own, although I can see why your mom
would worry. 

You have stated that you are against assisting women with 
daycare because you feel it's bad for the kids. When you bring in
the issue of latchkey children, you imply some reservations about
work outside the home for mothers of school-aged children as
well. Is this what you meant to imply?

A few questions: how long do you think a mother should wait after 
the birth of a child before returning to work? I notice that you 
did not mention the possibility of the father staying home with 
the kids. Do you think that only women should do this? Do you think 
it's alright for a mother of school-aged children to work outside
the home?

Let's pretend that you are running for political office right now.
Questions for the candidate:
You plan to subsidize women saying home with their kids, so
we don't have to go back to work and we don't need daycare. How
much will you have to raise taxes in order to accomplish this?
Will you really be able to compensate women for years of lost 
work time, at anything beyond the subsistence level? Remember
that the tax base will be shrinking, from all those women who
won't be in the work force.

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>Muriel
>Anything I say or do should not make sense.
>I sometimes let my pet hamster type some of my talk.abortion posts.
>I had a lobotomy and they removed my cerebral cortex.
>My employer is not responsible for my opinions, nor would he want to
>   be because of their embarassingly idiotic nature.
>Any posts of mine you don't like aren't by me anyways, but by the
>   infamous Dennis Hall.
>I will some day be lucky enough to compose eloquent arguments of logic
>   like Steve Franklin who I admire so grealy.
>I don't even type my posts. I write them up in nice orange crayon and
>   then my mommy types them up for me (when my pet hamster is busy)
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>There... use that muriel, and we will NEVER be able to flame you because 
>you will have covered every possibility for a dumb post.
>   steve
>p.s. - awhhh, come on muriel - lighten up. it's a joke!

Steve, Steve...
If I were to use a .sig, it would be short and sweet, like me.

muriel
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