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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 21:49:39 -0500
- From: Rebecca Ann Stallings <rs87+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: Re: raising children
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- sparker writes:
- >The children that frequent my convenience store are mostly
- >fatherless ones. [...]
- >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.
- >This, you see, is the result of single parent homes.
- No, this is the result of being unwanted and treated that way. I
- know both single-parent kids who would never consider behaving that way
- and double-parent kids who are angry at everyone in the world and show
- it. A lot of factors other than the number of parents are to blame for
- hostile and disrespectful kids.
- As for acting "like humans instead of animals," (a) humans *are*
- animals, and (b) if, say, an elephant came into your convenience store
- and asked for cigarettes, you probably would be so surprised you'd
- forget to ask for its I.D., and if it said "fuck off" to you, you
- probably would be impressed that it could speak English. At least, that
- would be my reaction.
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- Scott Moir writes:
- >The Poly people that I know seem to realize that you make your own family
- >structure, it isn't dictated to you. In all honesty, the best thing for the
- >kids is caring, and it doesn't really matter who gives it.
- Exactly. A monogamous, heterosexual couple can be utterly dreadful
- parents, and a gay uncle and a celibate grandmother can team up to do a
- wonderful job of raising a kid. It all depends on the individuals
- involved.
- To some extent, it also depends on where they live and how their
- family structure is viewed by others; obviously, it's a bit more
- difficult to be happy if you're persecuted. However, that doesn't mean
- being different is always a bad idea, and in fact, a family can take
- pride in being different. Mine did. (A standard nuclear family with
- occasional other relatives hanging around for a few months . . . but we
- were intellectuals, environmentalists, members of the "wrong" church,
- and otherwise considered weird in a homogeneous small town.)
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