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Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
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Tue, 10 Jul 2001 13:06:03 GMT
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Duane Hess wrote:

> Have kids volunteer at a day care center.
> Expose them to the joys of parenthood - before they are a parent. Yes babies
> are fun when they are cooing and quiet, but show them the flip side as well.
> Give them the truth and they are more likely to make the "right" decision.

There was a good program on the telly in the UK fairly recently where they had a
teenager looking after a child on their own full time, with the real parents of
the child supervising from hidden cameras and so on. They did this with several
teenagers and the results were *very* interesting; if I remember correctly there
seemed to be an inverse relationship between the degree of rose coloured
spectacle view of parenthood of a given teenager prior to them looking after the
child and their eventual ability to cope and even enjoy their brief spell of
parenthood.

Jennifer



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  Re: More LP S P A M : (was Re: Scary Survey results about the US First Amendment)
 
(...) I don't know either. I'm just going on my own knowledge, experiences and perceptions. I feel that a privatized system is better than the alternative public system that we have now. Besides, why do we have banned books? Shouldn't we read that (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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