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- From: hough@seismo.gps.caltech.edu (Susan Hough)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Re: Zoe Baird's Woes....
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 21:17:32 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- References: <1jvnn0INNsu7@crcnis1.unl.edu> <1993Jan25.145403.19864@cbnewsd.cb.att.com> <C1F78u.4r7@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- Summary: the real reason?
-
- In article <C1F78u.4r7@acsu.buffalo.edu> oispeggy@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Peggy Brown) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.145403.19864@cbnewsd.cb.att.com>, nance@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (nancy.l.colucci) writes...
- >>In article <1jvnn0INNsu7@crcnis1.unl.edu> mpaul@unl.edu (marxhausen paul) writes:
- >
- >>>So what's people's feelings about Zoe Baird's hassles with finding
- >>>appropriate child care?
- >
- >I don't think its any excuse. With her money and connections I'm
- >sure she could have found good, legal childcare.
-
- Agreed. I think the public recognized that the argument about not
- finding legal residents to take the job was nonsense--one, there are
- plenty of legal residents who will work for $7/hr plus room (we had
- a long list of applicants for $5+/hr and more than a few of them
- were legal); two, she could have afforded to pay a lot
- more than that & thus make the job much more attractive.
-
- >I think she just wanted to save a few bucks.
-
- Here I'm not so sure. I've wondered all along if she was sticking by
- an implausible story because the truth was completely politically
- INcorrect. I wonder if the truth wasn't that she felt she could
- get BETTER childcare from a South-American woman. It is of course
- dangerous to generalize about such things, but I have a great deal
- of respect for mothers from Central & South American countries--children
- seem to be raised with a great deal of both love and discipline.
- Extended family ties are strong, as is generational continuity in
- child rearing.
-
- A less sympathetic extension of this theory is that an illegal
- South-American woman might be considered an especially good choice
- because she would be likely to leave. But I discount the "slave-labor"
- aspect.
-
- If I could afford either a high-priced American Nanny or a Peruvian
- woman who would love my children like her own, I would have to think
- long and hard about it. Actually, considering the likelihood of my
- ever getting appointed Attorney General, maybe I wouldn't have to
- think that hard after all.
-
- Sue
-