I challenged your false assumption with my own story: "Why have a baby if you’re going to let strangers raise him?"
You mistakenly assume that my family's story is unique. It's not.
Feminism, God out of the schools, no fault divorce, welfare from big government . . . you stayed married and became one of the elite who can’t imagine any other way.
My wife and I have done it the Biblical way: we are not divorced, and our kids are well adjusted Christians who have successfully launched their own careers.
We're hardly "elites" My kids are all public school and public college educated, not preppies or ivy leaguers. The boys' college was GI bill, my daughters worked and were debt free coming out of college. My daughter took out a loan to pay for her Master's degree.
The kids learned how to manage money, and when we paid off our house early by paying down extra principal, I like to think they learned something from that. I have built a successful business over the last 21 years; I suspect at least one of my "day care babies" will do the same some day.
If what we did as average people was successful, why must I be forced by anyone to imagine failure?
Those who criticized the path my wife and I took in rearing our children beginning with our choice to use day care when they were very young are today - unsurprisingly - not in a position to claim similar successes with their own families or their finances.
We all make our choices. I'll always stand ready to be judged according to choices I've made.
How about you?
FReegards!
