well um
i guess the first question is uh what um
what do do you have any children at all to begin with
well i work with children um i don't have any right now uh myself um
but we definitely do want to have um children and i work in the medical field so i work with children during the day quite a bit
pediatrics
um well i have worked in family practice which in large part was pediatrics
i
so i'm
well aware of
child care problems and needs
oh are you um what are you a nurse are you a doctor uh
i'm a physician assistant
is an attendant a physicians assistant
um-hum
i see so
have you ever heard of that
i've no well i mean there's all kinds of things i haven't heard of so i i haven't heard of that no not particularly what what do you do exactly
hum
um well we're train to diagnose and prescribe and
um in some states anyway their prescribing laws are different and
yeah
in the particular job that i recently left um
i was functioning
as a family practitioner and
just seeing patients of all varieties whatever you'd see in normal family practice
pretty much what i did and i saw kids a lot
they liked to see me because i wasn't an intimidating man doctor i guess
um-hum hum hum
so they appreciated that
oh boy
but
so do you have children
no i do not none that i'm aware of anyway as they say um
no i uh no i do not have have any children i'm very i'm mostly happily single
hm none that you're aware well that's our topic right
uh
yeah i i it is i i um
uh i don't know i have i have my own opinions on the on the subject it's kind of
for me this particular question is is is uh reminiscent of uh answer yes or no have you stopped beating your wife
uh um it pre supposes something that isn't necessarily that isn't necessarily true first of all that you think that child care should be done by other people besides the people having the kids
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but um i'm i'm a little like i don't know i've i've got my own views on that i
well what are your views
well uh
you can tell me i've
doesn't matter if i agree or not oh
hey there you go
um i don't know i i tend to think that child care is kind of overused i think there's a
kind of what
kind of overused in a sense it's the idea is that you can have a two income family and nothing is going to be changed you know the idea of quality time over
over quantity of time spent with kids which i think is nonsense
um-hum
yeah
that's the reason one of the reasons i think that schools are doing so badly is so many people look at them as a just a just a tax payer financed babysitting service
um-hum
you know but anyway that's just me
well i agree with you there i i guess
um
i i suppose
you know you could call me a career woman but i i do feel that i want to be at home with my kids mainly because i see that as such an important thing um
that
also i know of what a job takes out of me
and i wouldn't have anything left over for my kids and i wouldn't want to do that to myself you know
yeah
i mean these are human beings that we're trying to raise and help them be constructive members of society
there's a good phrase
so
so i i'm with you there on the other hand i have a lot friends who are mothers and work full time in their careers and i wouldn't
you know i
their kids are darling too and i i would hate to give them the impression that i judge am judging them
um-hum
yeah oh yeah i i understand that
yeah but on the other hand there some that are sacrificing their kids for the sake of their jobs and you know
i'm sure their kids would be much better served if
if somebody would at least i don't know it's it's rough and i think that there's a
yeah
well there a
giving an example my girlfriend's uh sister
um-hum
is um marry married a uh
married a uh psychologist and where they're living he they can they can afford for her not to work
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which she has not been doing since they since they've had uh children
and especially i i think it would be ultimate really impossible because she just had twins not very long ago
oh
and uh
yeah there's no way
and uh they
you know they tell me that there's they get together and
