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• Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:23 PM

  It is just laziness

  I haven't read Ms Flanagans work, but I can see how she has an audience.

  She is offering up a big pat on the back to overeducated and underutilized women. The world of work is a complicated place and doesn't always open up to embrace our gifts and talents. Her energies would be better spent talking about real issues. Perhaps these stay at home moms haven't found a niche in the professional world, or crafted a career or job that provides them with enough flexibility to parent and work effectively. When they hear this message, NO PROBLEM! As mom you are doing the most important job in the world! You *are* a success, and you *have* a career, Motherhood! They can give up trying to meld a professional life with their personal one.

  As a result, we get no closer to really dealing with the issues that effect children and families in this society. It helps no one save temporarily stroking the egos of parents who have the means to live out this model of a family. It is just laziness.

  We need all people to be actively seeking better working conditions and more family friendly policies. To give up is to go backwards. There are more than two models of parenting and the workplace is changing. We can make it change for the better instead of pointing fingers and congratulating ourselves on our own choices. Women have value to this society beyond mothering, cleaning, and lets not forget, shopping. I stay home with my kids but I am offended by her pandering. I haven't given up on a career, and other women who stay home shouldn't either.

  Thank you for pointing out her hypocrisy.

  Shannon KH

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