[speaker001:] what what do you feel is the the major change that's been going on
[speaker002:] that's a tough question we're now able to work full eight hours a day and still do our housework right
[speaker001:] I think that has been the major change is that
[speaker002:] don't ask me
[speaker001:] women feel they need to go out and do this they they no longer feel it's um it's no big deal to to stay home and raise your family anymore
[speaker002:] well it has no credibility anymore
[speaker001:] I know it and I I think I think that's really sad because I think there's going to be a generation of kids that are going to grow up raised by somebody else
[speaker002:] well I'm a school teacher and I'm in charge of raising them so I can appreciate it
[speaker001:] you don't well I'm I'm still home with with my last one and I wouldn't trade change a minute of it for anything
[speaker002:] oh good for you good for you
[speaker001:] but I I can't I can't help but think that eventually the pendulum's going to swing back the other way again
[speaker002:] well you know it's interesting because when I heard the topic I was thinking uh this summer Oprah had a TV show
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] about wives that refused to go to work and how their husbands thought they were terrible and one woman had four children and her husband said she wasn't pulling her own weight in the family and that's frightening
[speaker001:] oh yeah that's yeah it it's sad
[speaker002:] and it's you know it was almost from the audience participation it was almost a social issue yeah people were siding with the husband saying you've got to go to work if you have these four children you've got to support them
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and nobody would give her credit for being home and raising them
[speaker001:] uh-huh yeah I I think too many people feel they need to live a more extravagant life style than necessary
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] uh you know to I I don't think you know the kids don't benefit from the bigger house and the fancier cars and and and this type of thing I think that they would from the you know attention or whatever
[speaker002:] that's true
[speaker001:] uh but I I uh I I don't know I I see it as a major problem and I think it's going to have to swing back the other way because I think we're going to have an awful lot of kids who are going to have major problems from all this
[speaker002:] yeah well you know I as I said I teach school and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] gosh I'm trying to think I don't know I have one woman one mother that I know is home but she also has ten children
[speaker001:] what what grade do you teach
[speaker002:] six seven and eight
[speaker001:] six seven and eight I've got a child uh where do you live are you out
[speaker002:] in Richardson
[speaker001:] in Richardson we're in Plano here and I have a daughter in middle school and uh I know there aren't very many but she has a few friends that have moms who are still at home but do you see
[speaker002:] oh okay
[speaker001:] um you know do you ever do you ever see problems you know that you feel you know that the kids are are left alone too much and
[speaker002:] oh yes yeah I've got one child um that stays with me everyday till five because his mother doesn't come home until seven and he doesn't wanna to be home from three thirty to seven by himself
[speaker001:] he stays at school and the school allows that
[speaker002:] um-hum well he stays with me and I have a tendency to work late I work till six
[speaker001:] uh-huh um-hum
[speaker002:] so he stays with me till five thirty and then goes home and you know I have lots of kids because they know I'm there late I'm a slow mover to say the least but um they'll come in and say can I stay with you because I don't wanna go home to an empty house
[speaker001:] oh my um-hum oh
[speaker002:] and that's frightening because you know the when I said I I'm I'm raising them I am because we're talking about boyfriends and we're talking about what the girl said in class and you know what's right because there's no mother at home to do it
[speaker001:] um-hum no mother to talk to
[speaker002:] and um it makes a difference I've and just the social values
[speaker001:] well I've do you do you feel it will swing back the other way or do you feel there's just going to be a big push to uh you know for for more more and more day care type situations
[speaker002:] I I don't know I I have a feeling we're gonna go more and more I've got a twenty one year old female and I've got twenty two year old male children child children and
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I listen to my daughter and she's going to work and she's going to buy her house and she's gonna get her car and then she's gonna have her children and then when you know they go on one salary will they be able to sustain what their lifestyle is
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and they back to work and you know I agree with you I was raised in a generation we didn't need all those things
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] and we live without them we did fine