- 10 Nov 2013 23:36
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If your child would never be more than a fast food worker...
...would you still want them born?
I was making up some sandwiches at Subway today, and the kid behind the counter said he was going to UCLA. He told me he could not wait to get out of his repetitious job. He told me about the "lifers" who worked there and had no hope of ever advancing. That is what this thread is about.
I understand that in France workers get six weeks of vacation a year because they believe life is for living, not working. I go along with that. If I had a large family where educational opportunity was limited to being a fast food worker, I would not bring the child into this world.
The manager of our Subway worked her way into that position, and had four children. She told me that if she had to do that today, she did not think she could make it happen. She is exhausted all the time, but says she would do it again if it would give her children a better life. I think she is the exception, not the rule. I think that people who have more than two children without the income to send them all to college are doing their children a dis-service. I think child rearing is a "quality" not "quantity" proposition. What do you think?
...would you still want them born?
I was making up some sandwiches at Subway today, and the kid behind the counter said he was going to UCLA. He told me he could not wait to get out of his repetitious job. He told me about the "lifers" who worked there and had no hope of ever advancing. That is what this thread is about.
I understand that in France workers get six weeks of vacation a year because they believe life is for living, not working. I go along with that. If I had a large family where educational opportunity was limited to being a fast food worker, I would not bring the child into this world.
The manager of our Subway worked her way into that position, and had four children. She told me that if she had to do that today, she did not think she could make it happen. She is exhausted all the time, but says she would do it again if it would give her children a better life. I think she is the exception, not the rule. I think that people who have more than two children without the income to send them all to college are doing their children a dis-service. I think child rearing is a "quality" not "quantity" proposition. What do you think?