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The Working Mom and Custody Issues
| Mon, 11-30-2009 - 8:24pm |
There was an article in this month's Working mother magazine about wrking mom's losing custody to SAHD's.

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I don't believe that is a true/false type of statement....let alone apply it has a true/false type of statement to my life or my children's life.
PumpkinAngel
And when I was in high school I either rode my bike home or took public transportation, as did most of my friends. The very idea of being routinely picked up by parents or carpooling with others (practically no one drove to school then) didn't even occur to us.
Plenty of kids still live within biking/public transport distance of school. Surely by the time they hit high school they would likely have more options than catching a lift with a friend or waiting for a parent to pick them up.
"I don't believe a security guard provides the same level of protection as a police officer."
Dependin on the situation they might not, but a simple phone call can be made to a police officer if needed. Tax dollars, IMO, should be going to the police to be ready for anything but not just patrolling school districts when a security officer (who IME, are retired police officers) is perfectly capable of doing the job.
Of course....but outside of wrapping them in bubble wrap and spending 24/7/365 with them for 18 years...it's about building trust.
PumpkinAngel
<< I imagine most high school kids would be able to get home on their own somehow. >>
There are certainly a lot of options out there: walk, bike, school bus, city bus, borrow parents car, ride with friends, call a taxi...
I would be surprised if most high school kids didn't have access to at least ONE of these options if they really needed to get home.
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Well I don't know about you, but that's MY plan for my children! ;-) LOL
Well, it's good you aren't paying taxes here then. I'm quite happy with the allocation to fund SROs.
Security guards are NOT capable of doing the same job.
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