101 East - Asia's Baby Crisis - 03 July 08 - Part 2

[koshka435]

It is interesting how different are the two women - the carrer girl Olsen and the professional mother. The first one is tough, tense, cold, a bit mannish in her manner - a woman who has supressed her femininity. There is great potential for neurosis here. The second one is mild, kindly, warm, harmonious, most feminine, and at the same time you see that has real strength character. I find the 'professional mother' much more attractive and lovable.

[darthvader5300]

The world's ultimate resource is humanity and humanity's ultimate resource is humanity itself!

[darthvader5300]

you are enjoying your independence because your existence allows it to be enjoyed because you exist and you exist because your parents and grandparents have chosen to have children not because for the sake of having children by itself but because they want their heritage and potential to continue to exist in perpetuity and that can only be realized in a pro-natalistic cultural and social infrastructure that allows your mortality to become immortality that can only be realized in the cradle.

[ted2924]

That's only happening in Singapore, a rich country.

[ahjohn86]

is men empower women..always remember.

[givebirthathome]

Felice Schwartz, an MBA mom, coined a phrase, "you can have it all, but not all at once" and started the Catalyst Foundation to advocate "sequencing" to advocate a social ideal of sequencing--where women would work, but not during the years when their children were small.

Unfortunately, this humane idea, good for women, good for families, good for children, was not supported in the US, and most places.

[SINGAPORENEWYORK]

I disagree, single mothers in singapore are discriminated against.

[RG415WBFAA]

Out of wedlock marriages are terrible. The statistics bear that out. The kids and the parents are worse off for that. People in the west are much less mature and responsible. And government shouldn't prevent discrimination. Government constantly discriminates itself. That would be hypocritical and wrong since government itself is irrational and brutal.

[usaelectionpolls]

Love the discussion format... good ideas being expressed.