Would you have had kids if you couldn't
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| Wed, 09-03-2003 - 3:31pm |
I guess I'm still astounded at the attitude that surfaced at another thread implying that if they couldn't pay for college, they wouldn't have had children. Of course, I'm a lazy, selfish mom at home who isn't working while some of my kids are in school so maybe my opinion doesn't count. Maybe I SHOULD take up scrapbooking to make my existence more worthwhile! lol
In any case, it is an interesting question considering that, under that reasoning, Oprah Winfrey shouldn't have been born. Give me time and I can come up with a whole list of highly successful and respected people who have impacted us in positive ways that wouldn't have been born had their parents decided that because they couldn't pay for college, they wouldn't have children.
How has the college issue influenced your decision to have children, if at all? Do you think it is an important criteria in the decision?
Cindy

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How in god's name did I manage to graduate from college cum laude? I guess it was my good looks...
Edited 9/7/2003 8:24:49 PM ET by islimshady
So are you going to reveal the dirty little reputation?
You said 'his friends'. . .not everyone in his community.
He had a small circle of friends. . .all of whom either went to college or into the work force.
He rebelled and actually left home, came to stay with me, we decided to get married and found out I was pregnant. He enlisted in the Reserves a month before we married and 3 months before our daughter was born.
He came home from Basic for her birth, then from tech school when she was 3 months old. He went into Active duty 4 years after enlisting.
However, many of the folks I went to school with in Zweibruecken ended up going into the military; I just didn't know they didn't until years later, like when I met one at DLI, when I saw two others at the commissary in Katterbach, and then later at our school reunion (our school in Zwei wasn't big enough to have reunions for specific class years; we just have mass reunions and have tables for those who attended in the 70s and then in the 80s (the classes of 90 and 91 sit with the 80s crowd, because after the air force base was closed, the school was shut down).
At my 20th reunion from my school back in the states, I learned that several folks that I *did* know from high school had later enlisted, particularly two folks whose parents lost their jobs when JI Case and International Harvester closed and they could no longer pay for their college.
Or perhaps you're referring to my unnatural ability to type a phrase into a search engine, such as "Weston, CT" + demographics and obtain information posted by the Weston, CT Chamber of Commerce?
Or how about my ability to click on a link in someone else's post and then read the website that appears?
(Any and all of which were the basic skill set necessary to have learned the ACTUAL graduate data for Weston, CT, instead of the imaginary numbers you were throwing about).
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