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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:42:06 -0500
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- From: "Chris A. Sloffer" <SLOFFER_CHRIS_A@LILLY.COM>
- Subject: Re: what makes a good parent?
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- >Some members of this forum have indicated that only heterosexual married
- >couples are capable of raising children the way they "should be raised".
- >How do you reconcile this view to the Chicago couple charged with
- >child abandonment for leaving their 4 year old and 9 year old daughters
- >home alone over christmas while they vacationed in Mexico? By all
- >appearances, they lived in a very respectable neighborhood and would
- >certainly be labled middle class. Just another myth about child abuse
- >shot down by reality.
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- I don't think anyone suggested that _ALL_ "heterosexual married
- couples...[raise] children they way they 'should be raised'." Let's not
- distort a bad situation to support equally bad arguments.
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- Exactly to which "myth" about child abuse were you referring? That it can't
- happen in middle class neighborhood or that it doesn't happen in hetero
- couples?
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- >fred
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- Chris
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