I'm both married AND childless, you insensitive clod.
Seriously, there are more people in the office than the Married Schnook With Kids and the Single Partier types.
And while I agree that society benefits in general when the collective "We" rear well-adjusted children, I'm pretty darned tired of all the parental crises in my office. I was responsible enough to use effective birth control, so why am I always having to adjust my life to suit your kids?
Here's the part where I piss off most of my friends who are working mothers: children require TONS of time and attention on a regular basis. If you or your spouse/the other parent aren't prepared to put that time in without it affecting your job, don't have the kids --or stay home and actually rear them! What makes you think you can continue to put in the same amoung of time and effort into your job once you've acquired another "job" of attending to a child? It just doesn't work that well. Your kid winds up in daycare, assimilating the values of the high school dropout who's with him 10 hours a day. OR Your co-workers wind up picking up the slack for the job you're now only doing 80% of the time (at 100% of the pay). Make the financial sacrifice, and spend the time rearing your child. Drive a Honda instead of an Acura. Go the beach instead of Disneyworld. Send your kid to only 2 camps this summer instead of 6. (Horrors! What will the neighbors think.)
I didn't intend for this to become such a rant. Sorry. Hot button!!
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I'm both married AND childless, you insensitive clod.
Seriously, there are more people in the office than the Married Schnook With Kids and the Single Partier types.
And while I agree that society benefits in general when the collective "We" rear well-adjusted children, I'm pretty darned tired of all the parental crises in my office. I was responsible enough to use effective birth control, so why am I always having to adjust my life to suit your kids?
Here's the part where I piss off most of my friends who are working mothers: children require TONS of time and attention on a regular basis. If you or your spouse/the other parent aren't prepared to put that time in without it affecting your job, don't have the kids --or stay home and actually rear them! What makes you think you can continue to put in the same amoung of time and effort into your job once you've acquired another "job" of attending to a child? It just doesn't work that well. Your kid winds up in daycare, assimilating the values of the high school dropout who's with him 10 hours a day. OR Your co-workers wind up picking up the slack for the job you're now only doing 80% of the time (at 100% of the pay). Make the financial sacrifice, and spend the time rearing your child. Drive a Honda instead of an Acura. Go the beach instead of Disneyworld. Send your kid to only 2 camps this summer instead of 6. (Horrors! What will the neighbors think.)
I didn't intend for this to become such a rant. Sorry. Hot button!!