RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: WINNING EMAIL OF THE DAY ON THE LEFT'S FRENZY OVER POPE BENEDICT

Steve Brenneis responds to Behethland B. Clark:

"You know, sometimes it's the woman that has the better-paying job."

So then it is a choice: job or family. The issue is not whether women can have jobs. The issue is about good judgment. Having children and then abandoning them to the care of others is not good judgment.

"And in most households, two salaries are necessary."

Define necessary. If the income of the husband is below subsistence, then the right choice is not to have children until he gets a better job. Otherwise, I maintain two salaries are never necessary, only a convenience to satisfy the whims of instant gratification.

"Grandparents make wonderful babysitters!"

They do indeed. They also make lousy surrogate parents.