Extract
The Mail
Kid Pro Quo
As a parent of two, I will admit my initial reaction to the interviewees in Ann M. Bauer's "secondhand Kids" (Talk, March) was predictably unsympathetic. In the interest of fairness, I tried to remember what life was like before I had kids, or what my perceptions of other children have been when my kids "stayed home with a sitter" (a suggestion your interviewee Jane helpfully emphasized so parents could fully benefit from her wisdom; if I have ever inconvenienced her by not being able to find a sitter, consider me suitably mortified).Instead of wasting another second on that, however, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the nameless (and so...See the full content of this document
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