From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jul 23 11:51:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA06649 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06641; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:51:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA14333; Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:51:06 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 12:51:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199707231851.MAA14333@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ac199@hwcn.org Cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , freebsd-chat@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: FTC regulating use of registrations In-Reply-To: References: <4643.869672082@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > jmb would argue that parents are putting careers ahead of their > family. I don't think that this is fair. Despite all the speak of > "empowerment" and what-not, I think the reason that both parents are > often working now is simple economics. There may well be some who > do this, but not the vast masses. I disagree. I live in Montana, where we have one of the lowest income/family in the nation. And, due to it's 'ruralness' we haven't kept up with the 'standard' with two working parents, so most two-parent families leave one of them at home *in spite* of their low-income. This is mostly due to what's acceptable from being a parent, and what's not in rural America. It's all a matter of what's important. Is having a car that < 3 years old, sending your kids to private schools, having nice furniture, or children that spend time with their parents more important? It's all a matter of perspective. To over-simplify it, you have a choice of spending time with your kids now, or providing a good future for them apart from you. If you're a parent, go ask you kids which choice they prefer. :) :) :) Nate