"Jenni is angry that, having fought so hard to become liberated and independent, women are now being trapped into caring for dependent parents."
I can hardly begin to express the many levels of wrong contained in this quote. Aside from the wider ethical issues surrounding the value of human life which are pithily dismissed in the following sentence I am disturbed by the assumption that there is no obligation toward the care of one's parents, the people, that it must be assumed, loved, cared for and raised these dependant (and unspeakably ungrateful) children.
I think back to the end of 1990 when my Nana had her accident. We had already been looking to buy a bigger house so that she could move in with us because at the age of 90 she was beginning to find it hard to cope alone - it had taken a long time for my father to persuade her to even consider the idea. Toward the end of the summer she fell and broke her wrist and that brought the move forward. There were already five of us in a three bedroomed house, but we shifted and shared so that she was not left alone. Sadly, Nana died in the New Year and before we managed to buy a larger home for all of us, but when she went she knew that her son, and his family were there for her.
I fail to see where the inconvenience is in caring for a sick parent or other relative, we were all better for those few months she spent under the same roof as us.
As to the words of Baroness Mary Warnock; if she is so concerned about removing nuisance from the world, she knows what she needs to do.
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Date: 2006-08-16 01:47 pm (UTC)I can hardly begin to express the many levels of wrong contained in this quote. Aside from the wider ethical issues surrounding the value of human life which are pithily dismissed in the following sentence I am disturbed by the assumption that there is no obligation toward the care of one's parents, the people, that it must be assumed, loved, cared for and raised these dependant (and unspeakably ungrateful) children.
I think back to the end of 1990 when my Nana had her accident. We had already been looking to buy a bigger house so that she could move in with us because at the age of 90 she was beginning to find it hard to cope alone - it had taken a long time for my father to persuade her to even consider the idea. Toward the end of the summer she fell and broke her wrist and that brought the move forward. There were already five of us in a three bedroomed house, but we shifted and shared so that she was not left alone. Sadly, Nana died in the New Year and before we managed to buy a larger home for all of us, but when she went she knew that her son, and his family were there for her.
I fail to see where the inconvenience is in caring for a sick parent or other relative, we were all better for those few months she spent under the same roof as us.
As to the words of Baroness Mary Warnock; if she is so concerned about removing nuisance from the world, she knows what she needs to do.