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The Family: A Proclamation to the World
Seems to me that this approach is inconsistent with the family proclamation.
Oh man, I love it love it love it. I mean I was planning on doing something like this anyways. I grew up in a family where both parents had a career and I loved it. I couldn't imagine doing it some other way myself, plus I don't think I could marry anyone who didn't want their own career, I'm too ambitious myself and so I think I would have a rough time being with someone who wasn't also ambitious. So I've always known I would find someone who would like to do that too.
"I have to say, I put up my nose to the world and say, 'it doesn't have to.'" Awesome.
I think that I really like the article. I have to disagree with Ben that it does not follow the Family Proclamation. I think that the one family who had two kids seemed to be doing a great job. They ate together they played with their kids. They seemed really happy.
I have to disagree with the idea that if one parent stays home for a period of time that it makes the relationship unequal. It often does default to that I would guess, but it shouldn't it should be more equal than most people try to make it. In my opinion it is becuase it takes more work. I think that it shouldn't be about gender it should be about what is best for the kids. And quite frankly a family where the wife stays home and the husband is gone all the time "building his career" is also not in accordance with the proclamation. Parent should share more of the necesities of life with each other. Most of what the proclamation talks about is what mothers and fathers do together and only one small part talks about their primary responsibility. There is just too much to do alone.
That being said I think it would make me really sad to take my kids to daycare. I am glad I can stay home when they are little. But that in no way makes me feel unequal. And I really don't think that it should.
Jessica
I just wanted to add that it wasn't until the industrial revolution and more specifically the victorian era that the family work was divided as it is today. Men and women may have been better able to individual jobs on the farm, but it was a shared effort. And it was for the sucess and well being of all parties involved.
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