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| Tue, 07-31-2007 - 10:20am |
Why does the media portray working moms, always, as having guilt?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/family/07/30/hm.mommy.guilt/index.html
| Tue, 07-31-2007 - 10:20am |
Why does the media portray working moms, always, as having guilt?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/family/07/30/hm.mommy.guilt/index.html
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Ah, I understand.
Robin
I think child safety is a recent invention. It seems that each generation adds another layer of safety starting maybe 100 years ago?- whenever it was that people realized they didn't want hildren losing arms or lives to industrial machinery and some sort of child labor laws went into effect. But it's slow. Each generation adds a new element of safety beyond the previous one. (I'm not sure if there was child safetry as such before child labor laws. The child restraint widgets I've seen in museums from >100 years seem designed more to keep children from getting in mom's way.) I wonder what layer of safety our kids will add that will make us seem terrifyingly remiss in comparison?
edited to add: I just looked on wikipedia and found that the child labor laws were about getting kids into school, not keeping them safe from industrial accidents. And child abuse was entirely legal up until the turn of the century (wikipedia agian) so I guess it's actually quite remarkable that in 100 years we've gone from letting kids get their hands ripped off in factories to actually TRYING to prevent them from getting injured. It's a lot of preogress in a very short time. Each generation was significantly safer than its' parents starting about 1900.
Edited 8/6/2007 2:40 pm ET by susannahk2000
<<Your words are very clear to me that you really dont get what I am saying. >>
You mean the words that clearly state that I get what you are saying?
PumpkinAngel
Curious as to why you aren't answering my questions....so let's add another to the pile, what does doing my current job remotely have to do with.....anything?
Do you not believe that I can not continue my job and/or career in any other area than my current one?
PumpkinAngel
Eh. I personally would rather get another 1/2 hour -40 minutes of sleep than haul my cookies to a cold bus stop to sit and wait for a bus to take the fragile flower to school.
Meh. not a big deal as far as I'm concerned.
Yes. We. Did.
About ten years ago when i was working for our state's humanities council I ran a "living history " program each summer featuring different historicl characters. one year we featured PT Barnum and the scholar who portrayed him did a workshop for children about circus acts of old -- during his talk the kids in the audience fixated on one thing --
NONE of the daredevil acts wore helmets. they could NOT let this go.every single question these kids asked about circus daredevil acts was about the absence of helmets... it was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. you could tell this was generation of kids raised with bike helmets who could just not conceive there was ever a time 'without' them.
Yes. We. Did.
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