Comments on: ..aaand the brutal reality is…

By: piereth

piereth — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:46:50 +0000

Feeling a little jaded, robodad??

By: robodad

robodad — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:22:51 +0000

Kids? Personally, I hates ‘em. Filthy little cretins. Like retarded little dwarves, they are.

Unfortunately, we got stuck wit’ three of them, so the missus stays home and drives herself crazy with cotton balls and glue and crayons. Yippee.

By: piereth

piereth — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 08:52:36 +0000

I think you’re right, ABS. Western societies see children and their parents as a necessary evil, a regrettable but necessary break from the process of making money. Enjoy your children? Sinful! Want to spend time with them? That makes you half a person! And mentally ill, to boot! Gah.

By: Amoeboid Blurry Smile

Amoeboid Blurry Smile — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:31:46 +0000

I’d like to expand on Mamatried’s agreement with you. It seems to me that Canada is up there with the US in this regard. Perhaps it is English speaking nations that are strange this way. (I have no clue about the NZ or Australian situations). My take on it has been that North Americans don’t like children. I mean as a society — not each and every specific North American though do consider the fact that it is pretty socially acceptable to say “I don’t like children” — I’ve heard that too many times to count.

By: piereth

piereth — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 08:48:32 +0000

I understand that in France, women are incentivised to have more than one child. And the Scandinavian countries put us to shame with their childcare provision.

Grrr!!

By: mamatried

mamatried — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:30:16 +0000

I was in a similar situation. Luckily, I can work part-time teaching at the community college and my child care can be covered by husband and mother so I work in the evenings some and do a lot on the weekends. This is a full year of me making 1/3 my normal income and we have adjusted. No Mexican vacations (thus no SCUBA) and I have seriously refined the idea of being a tightwad. For me to do childcare that I like (either at the University or Montessori) is around $800 US a month for one child as well so this is a much better option for right now for us. I will continue part-time until public schooling begins and then we may still do a private school just depends on how much we like the public program I suppose.

This is where I also seriously think the US is lagging behind civilized nations. Luckily I am in a profession where it is pretty much expected for child bearing age women to take a short ‘leave of absence’ to raise their young children. Of course, we make squat compared to other professionals so it isn’t all that much of a concession. I’m with you on needing serious child care reform laws!