--- colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> two things sruck me about this rsponse; how sad it
> is you don't know any
> good parents
> and two: how jaded and old it sounds.
Unfortunately, "perfect" children are too often
planned for, and thought of as, an accessory of the
successful life ... no more or less important, but
every bit as necessary as the Nanny service you employ
to raise the little darlings for you, the 4+ bedroom
house 45 miles from work, the mammoth SUV to take you
back and forth at 12 mpg, where you struggle to keep
up with the upper-half-of-one-percent income club.
"Remember, we CAN have it all ... compromise &
sacrifice are simply not necessary. To think or act
otherwise will be taken as a sign of weakness by the
very people you're trying so desperately to impress."
So the mantra seems to go ...
And if it sounds jaded ... well how many "My Child Is
An Honor Roll Student at ________ Pre-Kindrgarten"
bumperstickers can you look at every day and still
maintain the ability to see the glass as half full?
Of course, this is coming from the husband of a couple
that's already made the ultimate expression of total
cowardice ... the carefully considered and thoughtful
decision not to have children.
Don Rowe
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