3391dms@hogpc.UUCP (D.SCHMID) (09/21/83)
**FLAME ON** I was going to avoid entering this discussion (since I have no children of my own), but I'm sick and tired of reading (over and over again) that children of working mothers are 1.) neglected (emotionally/physically/whatever), 2.) unsocial brats, 3.) screwed up for the rest of their lives, ETC., ETC! It just so happens that my mother worked, full-time, from the time I was 4 months old. (She recently retired, though!) Since there weren't such things as day-care centers in those days... we had a baby-sitter (7AM - 5:30PM). Yep, it really screwed up my life, and the lives of my two brothers! My one brother owns his own company, the other brother is a police officer, and I'm a member of the technical staff of a large corporation. Both brothers are happily married (2 children each), and although I'm still single, I hope for the same in the future. None of us has ever had troubles with the law, we're NOT alcoholics or drug addicts, we vote every election, and (granted, I am a bit biased on this point) I feel that we have all turned out to be NICE PEOPLE!!!!!! C'mon, people, there are no cut-and-dried answers about the effects of working mothers on small children. I've known an awful lot of families where Mom has been home all day, and the kids have turned out... well, let's just say that you wouldn't want to meet up with them in a dark alley... That doesn't give me the right to state, unequivocally, that mothers should NEVER choose to be homemakers... **FLAME OFF** Donna M. Schmid AT&T - Consumer Products, Engineering Design & Development Holmdel, NJ hogpc!3391dms