Keith,
My children rarely got injured. In fact one has only been to the hospital once, and the other never. They have rarely been to a doctor.

One got an award for the top sportsperson of the year for her grade at her school, and both have always received high marks at school.

They are both very healthy.

I save one from being killed by the mother, as I convinced the mother not to have an abortion.

I mostly raised one of the children myself, and I have not had any problems at all from other men.

I have mostly had problems from a few mothers, and from the education system, where I came across some of the most bigoted, prejudiced and feminist of individuals.

The most difficult part in raising children was the taxi-driving, or having to drop them off then pick them up some hours latter. Almost constant driving on some weekends.

Cooking and cleaning is very easy, and in fact I was a commercial cleaner for some time. I regard cooking and cleaning as very easy work, and almost relaxing compared to other work I have done

Keith, I know one girl who is mid thirties, and her 70+ father cuts and stacks her firewood for her.

Other girls in their twenties and thirties often rely heavily on their fathers to fix cars, leaking taps etc

<Tell me Vanna how did you feel when your child was hurting and they ran to the nearest female for comfort?Posted by keith, Tuesday, 15 March 2011 5:50:13 PM>

So your point is?

VANNA<I don’t know of any country where the life expectancy of women is less than men.

That has a lot to do with the fact that women are genetically stronger than men and also the self destructive habits of men who usually smoke and drink more than women. The article who’s link you posted mentioned sexually transmitted diseases in India. I’ll bet it’s the men bringing most of those sexual diseases home to their wives and girlfriends in India.

Also a lot of the poverty and hardship in India(in your linked article) is related to the extreme overpopulation.
As I stated in my post unless the need for world wide contraception for women resisted in so many poor countries by men is addressed ,then those countries like India will go on having poverty and a lack of clean water and all the water borne diseases that produces.
I believe I also included famine and war.

You do remember that women had to go to court to fight for the right to use contraception in Western countries too. (A court full of male judges) No women judges in those days.

Also it was stated in an article on this forum recently that the Indians are now drowning thousands of baby girls every year, the desperate form of contraception because less girls means less babies.

Houellebecq,

Just because I am pretty realistic in my summing up of the world
Does not mean I have not had a happy life. I have had as stable and happy a marriage as most . Those old people you would have me talk to would tell me what I already know, that marriage has it’s ups and downs.
And sometimes love is warm and sometimes it is cold but the marriage endures and gives a security and happiness and as you grow older a companionship that is not as easy to find as when you have the flaming bloom of youth as a drawcard.

My husband and I have raised good kids, who are intelligent and hold down good jobs and live in nice homes in good suburbs. I have grandchildren who I am very close too and who always want to sleep over at Grandma’s on Saturday nights because I always take an interest in them and we have lots of giggles and fun.

I had a happy childhood.

My Dad always taught me to question and not except the status quo. Dad grew up in the great depression and he took any kind of job in his long working life to keep us fed and clothed. The stories he would tell me of his experiences in life and some of the things that people he had known had done, taught me to see things without any rose coloured glasses I suppose. Such as the one about the cook who worked at the canteen at the meatworks who refused to throw some rotten meat out that was starting to turn green. He cooked it all up in some sort of gravy.

When people started getting sick the ambulances came to take them to hospital. When they questioned the cook. He pointed to the windows and said it’s because there’s no fly screens on those windows and doors and they believed him.
I still enjoy a beer with my Dad, although my mother died about ten years ago.

Hey vanna,

When you've got a spare minute you might like to pop over to the Australian parenting website, Raising Children Network.

http://raisingchildren.net.au/forum/

It's full of dedicated parents sharing ideas and finding solutions to problems.

Funnily enough, the overwhelming majority of participants are women.

Poriot,
I found that there isn’t much need for “parenting ideas”. Common sense is most necessary, or some initiative.

I also have safety and first-aid training.

The general system seems to be to label men as “abusers” and to label women as “nurturers”.

This system of discrimination is a part of feminism, and most of feminism is connected to the university system, and that system of discrimination from the universities also extends down into the secondary schools and primary schools.

One of the problems I had with the education system was various teachers always denigrating men, and trying to turn children against men or against their fathers.

I didn't tolerate that, and the eventual result was one teacher who was eventually sacked, and a principal forced into early retirement.

I am quit proud of that record, as I believed it also forced various other teachers to re-think their feminist philosophies.