keithe@teklabs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) (04/26/84)
I got the biggest kick out of the line that went something like "I don't have kids, but when I do I know my dedication will be 100%." That's an extremely easy statement to make (about the 100% dedication) but it only proves that you don't have kids yet. I grant you that you may approach a high level of interactivity/decication with your first child, but when number 2 or number 3 come along there just plain isn't enough time in the day to carry out (what I infer from) your 100% dedication statement. I could elaborate, but (1) people without kids probably don't understand/believe it, and (2) people with kids do understand and don't need to be told (again). As for the fathers staying home and the mothers working: when my wife gets to the point in her career that her income is adequate to pay all the bills I'll quit in a minute to stay home and take care of both the kids and the house. [But now I'm guilty of the same kind of statement I'm arguing against in the above paragraph: I don't stay home to take care of the kids and the house yet, but when I do I know my dedication will be 100%.] keith ericson at teklabs "The opinions expressed by the husband of this home are not necessarily those of the management."