The Responsibility Project

1. Fiscal responsibility

   Making money is critical to raising a family, it doesn't represent greed. In many parts of this country it is impossible to be fiscally responsible without 2 incomes. I am a big believer in birth control, abortion and limiting the size of one's family for environmental reasons as well as others. The world cannot take so many people as some families go on making. However even one child is expensive, especially with college costing $50K a year. Many parents can't afford rent or a mortgage and saving for college without working. Greed does not drive most working mothers. I highly recommend Montessori schools over nannies and wish more parents had this available for them. However, nannies and schools are not substitutes for mothering. To define them as such is creating a narrative that doesn't exist. They aid, assist, and enrich the parenting process. Not all nannies are good, and neither are all stay at home parents. Some are thoughtless and cruel and shove kids in front of TV. Good parenting is not defined by where a parent spends their time. There is no logic in this discussion when people define good mothering by place.

   • Ann
   • 3 months, 2 weeks ago

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