L. Jonathan Kramer wrote:
>Perhaps there are people who go to work and leave their children in daycare
>because they aren't attached to them, but I don't think they're even a
>significant minority, let alone the majority of working people.  Most
people work because they have to, and would much rather stay home with their
kids if they could figure out a way to do it.  (IMHO, of course)
>
Absolutely!
       I don't believe that whether or not one is forced to work outside the
home is the marker of whether or not parents are attached to their children.
Attachment parenting can be done both ways, and those of us who have been
required to return to the workforce must be even more creative to fit it all in.

        By the way, my belief is that society "in general", benefits from
those of us who work outside the home, and practice attachment parenting.
Otherwise, all your healthcare providers, counsellors, retail owners etc,
would be only those with no children, or grown children -- knowledgeable
people no doubt, but not necessarily with any current experience.
        IMHO.
"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to
have an opportunity and not be prepared."
                                       Barbara Whelan, M. D.
                                       London, Ontario, Canada
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