Comments on: Diane Vacca On the Shriver Report: Now that We Are the Labor Force, How About Some Respect? http://womensvoicesforchange.org/diane-vacca-on-the-shriver-report.htm Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:40:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Amanda Piper-Smith http://womensvoicesforchange.org/diane-vacca-on-the-shriver-report.htm/comment-page-1#comment-15072 Amanda Piper-Smith Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:40:51 +0000 http://womensvoicesforchange.org/?p=9378#comment-15072 I am dismayed that the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. After watching the NBC evening news and listening to both the men and the women's comments I am frustrated. Why can't we be genderless when it comes to surviving within our families? Why can't either the man or woman work to support the family without critique? I am 51. I remember reading story books when I was young about the Mother of the family working and the Father staying home...who cares! I believe we have become a society of complainers. We can do anything we want, with grace and consideration. The key word is civility. We must take back our society and go forward. Our children are suffering from lack of manners and morals. Let us be happy to be alive and be progressive and contributing adults, period. We are the leaders of society, yet we continually defer, analyse and question. I am dismayed that the pendulum has swung too far in the opposite direction. After watching the NBC evening news and listening to both the men and the women’s comments I am frustrated. Why can’t we be genderless when it comes to surviving within our families? Why can’t either the man or woman work to support the family without critique? I am 51. I remember reading story books when I was young about the Mother of the family working and the Father staying home…who cares!

I believe we have become a society of complainers. We can do anything we want, with grace and consideration. The key word is civility. We must take back our society and go forward. Our children are suffering from lack of manners and morals.

Let us be happy to be alive and be progressive and contributing adults, period. We are the leaders of society, yet we continually defer, analyse and question.

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