Monday, 25 February 2019

THE MOST IMPORTANT CAREER (letter published in NZ Herald Feb 28)

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Talk about unsung heroines! Your story The Rising Cost of Raising Kids says nothing about the women and their husbands who collaborate in raising kids without the dubious benefit of childcare depleting their bank account.
Significantly shedding a poor light on the stay-at-home state, the only such mother mentioned is counting down the days till her only child gets to kindy, stumping up $46 a week for childcare “for a moment’s sanity”.

This kid needs company, but maybe mother thinks the prohibitive cost of childcare also prohibits her son from the company of any siblings.
I wish she could get to know Christian families who don’t run the risks of long-term contraceptives and/or abortion, who have several children in quite quick succession who amuse one another, challenge one another and okay, sometimes fight - but soon sort themselves out.
And in the meantime, in the hubbub the mother makes their clothes, and their meals (often home-grown), and sometimes schools them too, teaching them the skills she uses in order to do all the above.
This is by far the most important career: making happy families and future citizens, of this world and the next.

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