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| Debbie Turrentine and the Child Outsourcing Industry |
| 2015-02-23 |
| Debbie Turrentine is a 35 year day care veteran in the Springfield area. And she's upset! And the reason she's upset is because the State of Illinois is likely to But what is the Child Outsourcing Industry you ask? And why should we care? Well young lieutenants, aspiring economists, and agents in the field, pour yourself a cocktail and let Uncie Cappy explain. It all started long ago in the late 60's and early 70's when two variables or trends were taking place. One was the 2nd wave of feminism that was educating (then) young girls about independence, equality, and (for some of the more extreme elements) how they did not need a man. Women could do anything men could do. And not only could they do that, they could "Have It All" (TM) - a career, an education, a retirement, a husband, and children. Of course even though this was a trebling of the amount of work that would be required to technically have "everything," the number of hours sadly, did not treble. Which meant an increase in one of these "things" would necessitate a decrease in another. The second thing was no-fault divorce. This allowed husbands and wives to divorce without there being any wrong doing by one of the parties. In other words, you could divorce for any reason. So frivolous could the reasons be, people often called it "frivorce." This resulted in a BOOM in divorce for the first generation to be married under it - the baby boomers. And just as Jackie Robinson made baseball a hallmark of black athletes, the baby boomer generation made divorce an Olympic event. Divorce rates skyrocketed to where 1 in 2 marriages ended in divorce, and worse, it now seems this "All American Pastime" has passed onto Gen X and Gen Y. Now these two trends or "variables" at the time were likely well-intentioned. Why wouldn't you want women to have all the opportunities and successes of men? Who wouldn't want to have it all? And why ruin or even inconvenience your life if your marriage is no longer working? On the face of it, they seem very logical, even libertinely American. But sadly they were quite myopic. For there was one insy, winsy, teeny, weeny, nearly borderline microscopic problem. Children. Much more at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #3 Children - potential future taxpayers. Potential not being a given. The problem arose when pols forgot that votes do not equate to taxpayers anymore. Consequently, you start to run out of resources (money and particularly what backs it) eventually. See - Venezuela or Detroit |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-02-23 09:59 |
| #2 I have been saying for years that a woman could fairly easily have any two of three: a marriage, a career, a family. Any two out of the three. Any one claiming that you can have all three is, as this author says, liable to run out of hours in the day. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2015-02-23 09:18 |
| #1 In turn, what is outsourcing teaching the children ? |
| Posted by: Jineck Omeans1520 2015-02-23 08:16 |