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Go, Noonie! That's exactly what I thought when I read that blog. I also read the comments - a more reactionary bunch of backwards-looking recidivists I have not had the displeasure of reading in a long time. There was only one single military female on there who very properly pointed out that she'd never missed a deployment & the commenter that followed her made a nasty crack about her lack of husband (this was Thursday; there are probably more comments now). I find it very interesting that the double standard is so clearly set forth in this - eliminate single moms but not single dads, as though fathers don't count or don't have difficulties finding caretakers for their children, or don't miss deployments when their arrangements fall thru as they did for the young woman who inspired the blog post. When I read the original story, it said Spc Hutchinson's mother had originally agreed to care for the baby & then discovered she couldn't cope with the additional burden due to the 3 other people she has to care for. It does not speak well for the Spc that she didn't think of that additional burden in the first place, but at least she had a plan; it may be that her mother didn't have all those people depending on her care when the plan was first formulated. Hard to say based on news stories (more story than news these days, but that's another rant altogether). Plans fall through sometimes. Funny how the news did not pick up on the reservist father who couldn't deploy as scheduled because his child's caretakers were in a traffic accident the day before he was scheduled to fly out - one dead, one hospitalized - but instead of castigating him for failing his obligations, probably the news would have been sympathetic, since it was his parents in the accident. Of course, emergency leave would kick in on something like that even if he'd already flown out. No, I can't be more specific - it was a year or so ago, third or fourth hand grapevine, sorry. But let a woman fail to go & it's all over the headlines. My tuppence. Lynne -- L. E. Puckett CAPT USNR Networking Systems Librarian lpuckett@billings.lib.mt.us Parmly Billings Library 510 North Broadway, Billings, MT 59101 http://www.billings.lib.mt.us Still haven't registered to review books? http://www.h-net.org/~minerva/review.html
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