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- From: moh2@quads.uchicago.edu (Kateri/Mary Anne)
- Subject: Re: raising children
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.145228.4266@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- References: <1992Nov4.130459.13474@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <sf03bq600VB2I_DkV=@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov17.233938.52596@gmuvax.gmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:52:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov17.233938.52596@gmuvax.gmu.edu> sparker@gmuvax.gmu.edu writes:
- [various discussion of single-parent families deleted for clearer
- flaming]
-
- >Hmmm. Maybe you people need to see it in another perspective.
- >The children that frequent my convenience store are mostly
- >fatherless ones. They were raised by black mothers who had a father
- >figure in the house often.. The problem is, most of them don't
- >stick around long enough to learn the kids names.
- >
- >So these little brats come into my store, with their chip on their
- >shoulder, and try to buy cigarettes. The law in
- >Virginia states that one must be 18 to purchase tobacco products.
- >When you ask these little lovelies for their I.D., you are told,
- >immediately, to fuck off.
- > If they had any respect for their elders, they would act like
- >humans instead if animals.
-
- What the hell? If you have problems with their manners, try to teach
- them something. Calling them animals isn't going to fix anything.
- And what makes you think that having a man constantly around the house
- would make them any more polite? Someone to beat them if they cross
- over your invisible boundaries?
-
- Maybe their elders don't deserve their respect. Maybe you don't.
-
- >This, you see, is the result of single parent homes.
-
- Pllllbbbbffftttt!, as Opus would say.
-
- You are scary.
-
- >SPARKER@GMUVAX.GMU.EDU
-
- - Kateri
- (apologies for this discussion wandering so off-topic...feel free to
- continue in e-mail if you wish)
-
- --
- More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One
- path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other to total
- extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- - Woody Allen
-