hello
hello my name is Nola i'm in Plano Texas
hi Nola i'm Steve i'm in Dallas Texas
not too far away
no that's unusual seems like usually
i've had some from Plano too
oh yeah i think all mine have been East Coast people so far
uh-huh
okay um let's see
so
social changes
social changes
what's that mean
uh sounds like not as recent social changes too like back to the sixties or fifties i guess
yeah
think we can handle that
yeah i yeah i definitely i mean there's plenty of things to talk about there that's a
okay uh shall i go ahead and push one
yeah sure
okay
you want to go ahead and start
uh i was hoping that you would but oh
yeah social changes is that uh
it seems to me that uh
that involves a lot of different areas i think
does uh
yeah like a lot it seems like the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is even more true today
so
yeah there is a a big difference in the uh economic
that
um status of uh people although i think that has been true uh always um
perhaps there's less of the middle range then there was
yeah
it's like people are starting to give up hope and they start out
very poor let's see that's a bad tangent to get on what else has changed between the sixties and the eighties
and the nineties no
um
i think uh
my in my situation i have three children and we're uh home schooling so education you know things that relate to to education um
are things that i think about a lot um i think that and i think that involves
social changes a lot
uh for instance
i think the schools are having more and more problems because of uh things that
are happening socially in the world around them and in in to because of their parents and things that are being taught in the home are not taught in the home rather
more not than are and children being put in day care centers from very early and and i think that a lot of these things that have been happening such as the
day care centers and things are having a big effect on the social changes
because of the way children are being raised they're not learning the values they need to learn and they're not um
yeah
they don't have the self-esteem that they need to have and they don't have the um a solid family life that they need to have to confidently and
deal with the things in the world
and uh i think we're seeing a lot of
rebellion and things because of that and the things like the gang
gang things that are happening and and um
yeah it seems so that yeah that is a pretty big change it seems
even not just single parent families but with no guidance but it seems like
some of these even ladies that that'll work and have a baby and then you know after two or three months go back to work you know well that that i mean that's very young for a baby
yeah
yeah oh
that's really sad i think that a lot of people and they think they have to but i i think that if they really tried they wouldn't have to and i i think that if they didn't that
yeah
yeah
and and it became more of the standard not to
that uh i don't know maybe companies would start paying men more so that their wives could stay home you know and have a more solid uh foundation for the kids
yeah
yeah i mean they're going to like you said i mean there
yeah
there's they might be saving money i mean even if they had to pay more now i mean in the long run it's going to cost society more to force two people to work even though it's higher productivity is short-term
that's right
it's already
it already costs society much more because of it you know it trying to do all these programs like Headstart and things like those you wouldn't have to do that if mothers would stay home with their children and do things with them you know
yeah
um there's and i think uh a lot of it is selfishness people have become very selfish they don't want to stay home with the kids or something like that there are a lot of two parent
yeah yeah
um
situations where the woman goes back to work because that's what she wants to do you know
oh rather than she needs the money just she wants the stimulating environment
rather than that she has to have the money particularly or maybe there's a small need for money so she does it partly because of the money but partly for herself too
huh is yeah is the thing how uh home study is that what you said home school is that uh is is it like uh a preschool level then or through grade school or
you know
home school
yeah
no we're i have uh one going into fourth grade and one starting kindergarten and then a preschooler and one on the way
oh is
oh well you sound busy
so you're teaching them completely huh
yes yes and i think uh it's becoming uh more popular then it has been for a while i think
home schooling's always been around but uh i can see more and more families going to it because of the problems in the schools um and a lot of it is discipline problems
yeah
a lot of it is and you can tell which kids have been in day care centers it it's really obvious
to look at them and watch the way they act and things that um
yeah
they've been raised in a day care center
yeah
that's pretty sad because
i mean
i don't know something's got to change with the schools that's what it all boils down to in the end usually anyway when they're young
well i think it's going to have to change in the homes before anything changes anywhere else the home is the base
yeah
it's the basic unit
and that's the where it all starts and if we don't start making changes in the homes and maybe part of that is educating parents better
yeah
and educating uh you know
changing people's expectations
i know they do do some they do have some classes in um high schools and things for kids to uh give them an idea of what
family life is like and the uh you know
and uh that kind of thing but um
