RM> RT> I certainly don't agree with First Lady
  > RT> Clinton's observation that, "It
  > RT> takes a community to raise a child"
RT> 
RT> RM>I beg to differ with you on this, unless your perception of her
RT>   >statement is different from mine.
RT>   [snip]
RT>   >The statement "It takes an entire community to raise a child" means
RT>   >that all the parents, when outside looked out for all the children in
RT>   >sight, and everybody knew everybody.
RT> 
RT> We do have different perspectives.  My impression of the statement was
RT> that the "community" should supervise how the parents raised the child.
RT> The Clintons' track record bears this out, IMO, a bit more than your
RT> scenario.
I don't believe she was the one to come up with the idea, she just wrote the 
book about it.  Originally, it meant that the child is not only influenced by 
the parents but everyone around the child.  So, in effect, the whole 
ommunity
must set a good example and help influence in the right way.  NOT that the 
community gets to decide how the child is raised.  Anyway, I haven't read her 
book, so I don't know how she interprets it.
Rachel Dawson
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