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JCfromNC's avatar

Because they (as a class) had it so good back then? I don't think it's all that much of a conundrum.

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JCfromNC's avatar

Seems legit.

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-=|Seriously, ☑️|=-'s avatar

Well der, our current setup supporting families works so well, why would we even consider changing it?

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frrolfe's avatar

I'm always amazed that Conservatives, especially Evilgelical, have only 2 Intellectual beacons, ChesterBelloc and CS Lewis. I suppose they're too ashamed to refer to the real intellectual power houses of Conservatism.

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frrolfe's avatar

I'm all a tingle and I'm a hetero male oldz..

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Iain Lovejoy's avatar

Holy @#%% I can't believe I just read that!

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Tinfoil Tichel's avatar

Getting something for free is COMMUNISM, unless it's women's labor

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яовэят ёскэят 😘's avatar

They're also men of a certain age. Sixty-some years ago, they weren't old, so of course they think those times were better.

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conti ben's avatar

Ah the pundit class

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SquirrelGraph's avatar

Grandparents providing childcare would require grandparents who had some possibility of eventually being able to retire from their jobs.

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rufus magister's avatar

Living wages, and a more robust Social Security could fix that.

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DO SOMETHING! Linda's avatar

This may be unpopular, but this bitch would have LOVED to have stayed home with her sons, but we simply could not afford that on my first husband's salary.

Instead, I worked raising the children of other people. It was the only way I could have afforded getting my sons into a nationally accredited childcare program.

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DO SOMETHING! Linda's avatar

There was no way in hell I was letting my mother look after my sons. I saw what she did to my niece. She made her into a spoiled, entitled monster.

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DO SOMETHING! Linda's avatar

I was a feral child, too. After the sibs went off to school and Dad went off to do ranch work, I was left to my own devices pretty much all day long.

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DO SOMETHING! Linda's avatar

My sons both had vasectomies before they ever fathered children.

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