Foxy I think your stance on stereotyping just highlights how easy it is for stereotypes to slip in even when not intended. Agreed that it is a pain trying to always get what you mean into posts in an unambiguous manner, too many times I've focussed on an aspect of an issue when typing a post and come back later and realised how much potential there is for some phrase to be taken out of context either accidentally or deliberately.

I've been a little frustrated by the way this issue has been so clearly played as a womens issue by both sides of the debate. I think that there is an element if truth to it, many women returning to work at some stage after childbirth will be in jobs that don't pay a lot more than the cost associsted with doing that job (childcare, tax, transport etc). From that aspect its a womans issue.

When thinking about families with two adults though I don't tend to think of the finances as being seperate entities. For most intact families I don't think that they work as seperate financial entities. Then its a human issue.

R0bert

Dear RObert,

I'm glad that you understand the issues so well.

Gee, Sueonline I actually agree with what you have posted but I Can't find it now. However I would like to suggest A look at the basic biological facts which evolved when we lived in caves. Man was dominant due to his strength and fighting ability. We would not be here now if women did not evolve a means of balancing man's physical superiority.
I suggest women evolved the sisterhood which like the mafia, has secret powers based on communication and sex as a weapon. The only way forward is to deweaponise and demystify sex.