Marsha Mallow
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Posted - 2014.08.17 14:28:00 -
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Ralph King-Griffin wrote:Ekaterina 'Ghetto' Thurn wrote:
Most of the current economic and social problems have resulted from 'equality' and the resulting requirement for two or more wages being needed to buy a house. In the UK at least. Personally I feel one of the parents making the children should be at home to look after them. It doesn't have to be the mother but one should be there. I can understand why that isn't the case now though for various reasons.
as a child of a single working mother, Bull****.
+1
Tbf my mother is known as "she who must be obeyed" and bedtime was 7pm sharp until I was about 10, then 10pm til about 15. Despite having a stressful job and being single, if she had wanted to play online games she probably would have made time when I was asleep. It wasn't a lights out policy (could read in room), but she made time to decompress after work doing what she wanted. It doesn't seem a bad policy once your children have a sleeping pattern to make a concerted effort to reserve a portion of every day for yourself. I go to friends-with-kids houses and notice some don't seem to have a particularly strict routine, bedtime is always a battle and the household revolves around the kids when they are awake. Their parents are often hiding in another room away from the noise anyway, and the only time they get to relax is when they pack the kids off to relatives.
Tippia wrote:Seconded. If anything, it's the nonsensical obsession of owning houses that has broken stuff
We rented when I was a child, partly because my mother was so dismissive of the notion of home ownership. The landlord was responsible for maintenance, which is important for single parents who can't do a lot of home improvements. But the main reason was to free up money for things she saw as more important, like holidays. That attitude resulted in her being constantly criticised by friends and family when I was growing up but we used to travel 6-8 weeks every year abroad and domestically which was awesome. There's no house for me to inherit as an adult, but she acted as guarantor on my morgage, which I wish I hadn't got now as the house is in negative equity anyway :P
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