>>> > Wow--quite the observant and compassionate young man.
>>> > But then, as someone noted on another thread, the apple never
>>> > falls far from the tree, does it? :)
>>>
>>> well, he's purer of heart than I ever was...
>>
>>But you didn't have to deal with anything like Sept. 11, either.
>
>The assassination of JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, Jr. -- those were enough
>to deal with.
>
Not to mention the aftermath of WWII, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, Kent
State, the daily propoganda that the Atomic Bomb would end life as we know
it (Duck and Cover) and, if you were a girl, fighting every day just to be
allowed to be a human being with a credit balance, a job, and to make
purchases in your own name. Sept 11 might have been a shock,  but in Europe
WWII meant having the equivalent of Sept 11 every day for months on end -
without the peace to be able to clean up the rubble and mourn the dead
before the next bombing run, and with all the lights out all the time every
single night. Some of us were born into that, some into the recovery from
that. My earliest memories revolve around my family trying to find missing
members of the family, and often times the lucky ones were the ones who had
simply been shot. This was playing out against the backdrop of the
realisation of what the Atomic Bomb was, and the Korean War going on.

>>> which is WRONG, dammit
>>> you have enough on your plate
>>
>>Yes; but if they're not getting it at home, they have to get it
>>somewhere.
>
>Make parents take courses and get licensed, for cryin' out loud!
>
All pre-fertile adolescents should have inert plugs inserted in their
fallopian tubes and vas deferens, so that the only way to have a child is
for both partners to have the plugs removed. No more accidental pregnancies,
no more pregnancies where only one partner wanted a child. It could be taken
to another level where people have to get a licence to have their plugs
removed.
>
>> > there are responsibilities that go along with that. My kids don't
>>> > get to be discourteous in my class, period. They can be
>>>
>>> Good for you!
>
>Let me add my "Good for you" here, too!  There are some
parents I'd like to
>horsewhip . . .
>
>AARrrrrghhhh.  Don't get me started.
>
>Veloci--too many people have raised children, not adults--raptor
>
Laurie ain't it the truth! Phoenix

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