what what do you feel is the the major change that's been going on
that's a tough question we're now able to work full eight hours a day and still do our housework right
i think that has been the major change is that
don't ask me
women feel they need to go out and do this they they no longer feel it's um it's no big deal to to stay home and raise your family anymore
well it has no credibility anymore
i know it and i i think i think that's really sad because i think there's going to be a generation of kids that are going to grow up raised by somebody else
well i'm a school teacher and i'm in charge of raising them so i can appreciate it
you don't well i'm i'm still home with with my last one and i wouldn't trade change a minute of it for anything
oh good for you good for you
but i i can't i can't help but think that
eventually the pendulum's going to swing back the other way again
well you know it's interesting because when i heard the topic i was thinking uh this summer Oprah had a TV show
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about wives that refused to go to work and how their husbands thought they were terrible
and one woman had four children
and her husband said she wasn't pulling her own weight in the family and that's frightening
oh yeah that's yeah it it's sad
and it's you know it was almost from the audience participation it was almost a
social issue
yeah people were siding with the husband saying you've got to go to work if you have these four children you've got to support them
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and nobody would give her credit for being home and raising them
uh-huh yeah i i think too many people feel they need to live a more extravagant life style than necessary
that's true
uh you know to i i don't think you know the kids don't benefit from the bigger house and the fancier cars and and and this type of thing i think that they would from the you know attention or whatever
that's true
uh but i i uh i
i don't know i i see it as a major problem and i think it's going to have to swing back the other way because i think we're going to have an awful lot of kids who are going to have major problems from all this
yeah well you know i as i said i teach school and
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gosh i'm trying to think i don't know i have one woman
one mother that i know is home
but she also has ten children
what what grade do you teach
six seven and eight
six seven and eight i've got a child uh where do you live are you out
in Richardson
in Richardson we're in Plano here and i have a daughter in middle school and uh i know there aren't very many but she has a few friends that have moms who are still at home but do you see
oh okay
um you know do you ever do you ever see problems you know that you feel you know that the kids are are left alone too much and
oh yes
yeah i've got one child um that stays with me everyday till five because his mother doesn't come home until seven and he doesn't wanna to be home from three thirty to seven by himself
he stays at school and the school allows that
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well he stays with me and i have a tendency to work late i work till six
uh-huh
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so he stays with me till five thirty and then goes home
and you know i have lots of kids because they know i'm there late i'm a slow mover to say the least but um they'll come in and say can i stay with you because i don't wanna go home to an empty house
oh my
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oh
and that's frightening because you know the when i said i i'm i'm raising them i am because we're talking about boyfriends and we're talking about
what the girl said in class and you know what's right because there's no mother at home to do it
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no mother to talk to
and um
it makes a difference i've and just the social values
well i've do you do you feel it will swing back the other way or do you feel there's just going to be a big push to uh you know for for more more and more day care type situations
i i don't know
i i have a feeling we're gonna go more and more i've got a twenty one year old
female and i've got twenty two year old male
children child children and
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i listen to my daughter and she's going to work and she's going to buy her house and she's gonna get her car and then she's gonna have her children
and then when you know they go on one salary will they be able to sustain what their lifestyle is
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and they back to work and you know i agree with you i was raised in a generation we didn't need all those things
yeah
and we live without them we did fine
