Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for October 25, 2008
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Transcript:
Alix: Why does Aunt Joan want to work part-time? Val: Maybe she needs more than her children to stimulate her brain... Alix: But she's a mom. Why did she have children if she didn't want to devote every waking minute to them?? Val: When you're a mom, we'll talk. Alix: What am I gonna know then that I don't know now?
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Those of us who have chosen to be childfree and have to work overtime to cover for “Working Mothers” who have called out again with a sick kid again ask ourselves this everyday. How dare this mother presume her brat will opt to become a mother. Maybe the kid’s smarter than Mom and won’t choose to breed.