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- From: dks@sr.com (Dave K. Sprow)
- Subject: Re: raising children
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.210957.6049@sr.com>
- Reply-To: dks@srhqla.UUCP (Dave K. Sprow)
- Organization: Silent Radio, Los Angeles
- References: <1992Nov13.210228.260@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Nov17.231317.809@sequent.com> <1992Nov18.152152.14225@spdcc.com> <1992Nov19.000618.19319@radian.uucp> <1992Nov23.113808.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:09:57 GMT
- Lines: 64
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- In article <1992Nov23.113808.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cmbr01@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes:
- >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.
-
- 2 more cents...
-
- University of Santa Monica offers the most cutting-edge relationship course
- (both with one's self and with another(s) that I've ever seen or heard of.
- Quite remarkable. Too bad we all didn't have this stuff when we were wee
- ones.
-
- David
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