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- Subject: Re: raising children
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.113808.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:38:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.000618.19319@radian.uucp>, markbr%radian@natinst.com (markbr) writes:
- > 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
-
- I agree. It is about time that schools, be they state or private, started
- to provide teaching on relationships, marriage and kids.
- I am not strongly religious and generally have a low view of the Church as an
- institution. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that the RC church my friend
- belonged to provided him and his future wife with guidance on relationships and
- marriage.
-
- However, church roles are declining (here at least)and so people are not receiving
- this type of counselling prior to marriage.
-
- If you all agree that this is important then maybe we can change it together
- instead of just talking about it.
-
- My $0.02 worth.
- Adios, J.
-