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- From: markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr)
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- Subject: Re: raising children
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.000618.19319@radian.uucp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:06:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.152152.14225@spdcc.com> pentangl@spdcc.com (Scott Moir) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov17.231317.809@sequent.com> petel@sequent.com (Pete Lancashire) writes:
- >>>] Ask yourself, would you like to
- >>>] have been raised in a single-parent family or a multiple parent
- >>>] family?
- >
- >>"If all are 'loving', for me as many as I can get", is what I would
- >>have wanted. But for me, just ONE caring parent would have been OK,
- >>my parents just did not wan't me around.
- >
- >This brings up a good point. Not only do all involved parents (meaning
- > N parents, where N is >= 1) need to be loving, but they must -desire-
- >to be parents in order to be good ones. If you don't want to do something,
- >how much effort are you going to put in to it? I'm not going to get into
- >what 'should' be done, I'm just looking at all the families that live in
- >the same depressed area that I do. How much good is it going to do for a
- >kid to have a two parent family when the dad is a alcoholic who beats the
- >kid(s) and wife, or drifts in and out of the family like a spectre?
- >
- >How many of you were -taught- how to parent? How many of you who have kids
- >were ready for the job when you got it? I know that when my kids arrived on
- >the scene I had very little idea what I was doing. Here I was 18 with a wife
- >and a kid and I knew what -images- society put forth about what parents and
- >husbands should be like, but no idea how to actually fit that role and still
- >be me, and not some actor. The inability to fit those expected roles really
- >messed me up personally and mentally, and put me through a real wringer.
- >
- ABSO-FUCKING-LUTLY!!!!! Isn't marriage & creating kids, to be inserted into
- society, at *least* as requiring of training as getting a drivers' license?
-
- I want there to be a *requirement* for a marriage license that you have
- taken an approved course (like the defensive driving courses) on parenting,
- and one on relationships.
-
- mark
-