In Reply to: Re: daycare posted by gg on October 23, 2007 at 3:52 am:
I am all for people getting married and staying married to have a wage-earning working parent and one who is not working, stays at home and raises the kids. All the research shows that married households do a better job of raising kids. But if people have kids out of wedlock or get divorced, that forces the childcaring parent into the wage-earning role. Unfortunately, our society now does not raise kids to believe that marriage vows are permanent, that kids matter more than your own happiness, that men have a responsibility to choose careers that will support a family (and then follow through), and that women need to choose a mate based on the notion of raising a family, not whether he's a fun date. Anything can be done well or poorly; I do have single parenting friends who manage to run a work-at-home business at night, and during the day, they are with the kids and keeping up the house. Then again, I know married, stay-at-home moms, who are volunteering everywhere BUT home, and doing any and everything but keeping a clean house, cooking good meals and attending to their kids. Then they whine that their husband doesn't help! Go figure!
