yes what what major changes have affected your life
well i think that uh women women working is the one that really affects me most strongly right now
um
you mean yourself or women in general
well women in general and and also myself but um
um-hum
it used to not really really make a difference to me
um or at least i didn't think so but my mother worked and i kind of now wish that that she hadn't that uh
uh-huh
that she had um stayed home and right now i'm kind of stuck because i'd like to have children but i'm not ready to do that because when i do have children i want to stay home
so i'm having to uh try to figure out a way
to be able to do that
uh-huh
and in in our society right now that's really something that's that's um
not respected and it's not
it's not um
it's it's not easy to do at all i mean there's a great deal of sacrifice that has to be made on the part of a family if the if the wife is going to actually be a mother
uh-huh
uh-huh uh-huh
that's interesting because that relates to the thing that that strikes me the most and i'm sure you've you've labeled the cause because what strikes me the most in the changes in society is the way kids behave
um-hum i think that that they're well they have to be related
and
that's right that's right and you know i mean i was thinking it just you know my complaint would would be um that i think that
you know the kids in the neighborhood run wild and they they destroy property and they you know steal each other's toys and stuff and there's just no respect for for people or property
um-hum
and i guess you know when you stop to think of it these kids have probably been deprived of a lot of attention that they've needed all their lives
um-hum i think that that's probably true
oh scary
i just wish there was a way i know that in in you know in Sweden
what they have there it's really their medical plan but it also deals with this subject because if a woman um
is working and i think even if she's not and has a child the government subsidizes her to stay home and raise the child
uh
but for how many years
i don't i don't know until it and um i'm sure until at least school age and maybe longer and what this does is
um-hum
oh that's great
it allows the government to subsidize her to be the mother of her children rather than to subsidize child care
um-hum
to raise the child for her
right
and i think that that's a real a much much more viable solution really
um-hum no i agree a hundred percent
a hundred percent i guess i was lucky because i was teaching and so i was able to just go to a class and teach when my son was little and so i'd be gone you know an hour and fifteen minutes or something at a stretch
oh yeah that's great
and then yeah very soon he was old enough to just go and sort of stay in my office and you know nobody seemed to have a big problem with that so that's an interesting issue though
um-hum
um yeah
um
goodness what else
oh there's been so many how do you just you know
right i've actually another one that i a question i would have is i guess i'm
being you know beyond the age of thinking of this this problem
i had an argument recently with my boss i think it was about the need for women to work but i think you put your finger on it when you said that they're not respected if they don't work because it seems to me that
a lot of people i know women i know are doing very uh menial jobs in a certain sense certainly financially
um-hum
and i mean when i see the amount of clothes that they buy and and how much it costs them to buy fast food on the way home
yeah um-hum
i'm sure that they're not making quote making money for the family on this
yeah really
and and probably you're right
i don't see how they could be especially not if they have to pay for child care
well no even families that don't have child care i mean you know when i think of this one friend who makes probably twenty thousand dollars a year and i'm sure she spends at least that in clothes plus you know fast food every day and out to lunch every day
um-hum you're probably right if she sat down and looked at it she'd be like God what am i doing this for you know
and
exactly and i mean you know even though they don't have children they they have relatives and you know the husband would certainly like a lot more attention and and she wouldn't have to hire somebody to clean the house and
um-hum
do the gardening and so i i guess you're right it's it's our society demands women to work if they're going to be respected
um-hum
really sad
yeah religion has changed too
oh that's true
um
uh uh some people now it seems like are turning back toward actually trying to find out what they're in it for instead of just um
it it's it some places still it seems like it's a social club
um-hum
you know it's just a place to go to visit uh to wear your nice clothes and and to sit around and talk but um
i think a lot of people are really you know searching now to find find out you know who they are and who God is and what all that really means now
um-hum so that might be of a positive change in society
yeah well it's it's um
it's beginning i think
um-hum um-hum
i guess i haven't seen that as much in this area although every now and then you hear about it
um-hum
um
but among you know people i know i don't see a great you know there are those people who have have had serious questions all along and you know are sort of pursuing it but
um-hum
um the churches here are growing leaps and bounds and i thought it was more because of the
the very transient nature of the area and that people were going basically just as you said as a social to meet people and that
um-hum
but um it's hard to judge
there are a lot of things changing i suppose
yeah
just you know the whole the whole environment i find
um-hum
um
sort of you know i wonder with with all our chemicals and and that and and the foods we eat and you know young people that i know are getting very serious diseases and
oh yes well i guess that's always happened maybe not as much as now but
you
probably
well it's just it's maybe it's more unusual now when you know somebody quite young gets certain kinds of cancer and in the past maybe the same percentage got them but we didn't know it or
i don't know
well i guess we've sort of run dry a little bit it was nice talking to you okay bye-bye
okay
nice to talk to you
bye-bye
