Unintended consequences, Ha!
The whole child care system is based on unintended consequences.
When the feminists demanded that the government force the lending
authorities to lend on both incomes if requested, the feminists thought
they had won.
In fact they lost big time !

They lost the option not to work because the price of houses rose to
meet the amount of money available on two income borrowing.

If you borrow on two incomes you need two incomes to pay the mortgage.

So all this anguish about childcare and government schemes would not
have been necessary if the politicians had had the guts to say NO !

Bazz, I think you are giving these amazing feminists far too much credit if you think it was just women who wanted to go back to work soon after baby is born.

What about the dad's?
Do you not think they wanted the extra money from 2 incomes too?
There is often a lot of pressure on new mums to get back to work from their partners, never mind the supposed pressure from the 'feminists'.

Gee, I wish I knew who all these feminists were exactly, that they had such enormous influence on all the male politicians!

Abbott is true to his conservative background in encouraging mums to stay home with the babies, where they belong, by proposing such a generous paid parental leave scheme, and also pricing childcare out of the market for low-middle income families.
He apparently has enough money to pay for 'chaplains' to spread the good word to the heathen public school kids though.

The financial cost to society of child-care and aged-care, highlights
the fact that for thousands of years society was built off the backs of the unpaid slave labour of women.

Surprise, surprise.
It is now obvious that no one will do the job
unless they are properly paid. Child care centers find it difficult
to keep staff because there is such a high burn-out rate and people
leaving the sector because they feel as though the full on intensity of the demands of the work, is not paid adequately.

Also, if there was no aged-care workers, then, "hello kids!" here is old senile or infirm Mummy or Daddy for you to give up your life caring for day after day. Our selfish society wouldn't want that now would they,
Best pay someone else a pittance to do the jobs non of us wants to do
ourselves. Lets not cast stones at the aged-care workers and
child-care workers saying they don't do a demanding job. People in glass houses and all.

Suse;
Of course the husbands went along with two loan scheme, they used to
think they would get the loan paid off quickly and then they could
have children.

Well that blew up because the house prices rose, just like any market
the price rose to meet the available money.

A friend of mine who was a bank loans officer predicted when it came in exactly what happened.
He knew the builders could not resist it and would grab it with glee.

Young women run screaming from the feminist harridans who tell them what to do and try to run their lives for them.

Now that the feminist dinos are in their dotage, young women can look critically at them, at what they have become (or always were) and their life styles.

'Nuff said.

FIGHT DAMM IT
WE ARE WAITING FOR THE WOMAN/CHILDREN;TO SAVE US/men[makes/us too tired[in the good way]..to fight[we were so close in the 70's/but themn the man/had the plan\they injected the darkies/and gays/with monkey serum.live aids virus.[the plan]it shut freelove down[your next lover will kil you]

good by free love...peace is so close

if only woman could be all men need/that need wil bring us to where we must be[here is where we are/NOW

The attempt to paint Islam as a pioneering force in women's rights is a recent one, corresponding with the efforts of Muslim apologists (not otherwise known for their feminist concerns) and some Western academics prone to interpreting history according to pre-formed conclusions. In truth, the Islamic religious community has never exhibited an interest in expanding opportunities for women beyond the family role.



The fourth Caliph, who was Muhammad's son-in-law and cousin, said just a few years after the prophet's death that "The entire woman is an evil. And what is worse is that it is a necessary evil."



A traditional Islamic saying is that, "A woman's heaven is beneath her husband's feet." One of the world's most respected Quran commentaries explains that, "Women are like cows, horses, and camels, for all are ridden." (Tafsir al-Qurtubi)



The revered Islamic scholar, al-Ghazali, who has been called 'the greatest Muslim after Muhammad,' writes that the role of a Muslim woman is to "stay at home and get on with her sewing.

She should not go out..too often,..she must not..be well-informed,

nor must she be communicative with her neighbors and only visit them when absolutely necessary;

she should take care of her husband...and seek to satisfy him in everything...Her sole worry should be her virtue...She should be clean and ready to satisfy her husband's moods/needs..ergo..at any moment."

charming/charlemane..never been to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DepNLgUjcT0
minnie/riPsiton..;..loving-u
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auYCXBzep9o
i was/after

AND/YES..I KNow..its\like..putting;a flame/under tHE HORNETS NEST
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Quran/010-women-worth-less.htm