Learn from the mistakes of others

:)

these social issues are, as you suggest, more complicated than i or mr cameron have suggested :) [i be a lawyer avoiding family law]

even if a parent were to become a full-time carer today, the social support networks that used to help them cope, and help them learn parenting skills, and so forth, are rarely available. six kids screaming for the nintendo is a hell i'd pass on. with fewer homes having backyards, there's precious few places a parent can send the kids that don't require either massive dollars or massive surveillance efforts.

changing gender roles, work patterns, socio-economic boundaries, social networks, relative income distributions, social expectations regarding purchasing patterns and priorities, and more all come into the mix.

i've been excluded from the economic largess that is "supposed" to come from my education for so long that i am turning my attention towards critiquing this expectation-assumption roundabout that i'm left to watch almost helplessly. partly trying to figure out why i'm really on the out, and partly to figure out what is really going on.

nothing like an idle mind to drive one crazy.

hence i'm contemplating what it would really take to (a) form a think tank, and/or (b) 'alternative' political party.

and when i hear the government announcing more funding to 'relationship counseling' which people contemplating divorce will be compelled to attend if they happen to have children, i begin to think about the social, economic (which is social) and political (which is social), and legal (which is social) implications.

dear goddess, i think i'm bored!