>In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000424140819.538980608B-
>100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond
><dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes
>>On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Johannes Schneider wrote:
>>
>>> that moved to the East as well ... There are areas where living
>>> standards in the East have detioarated certainly: E.g. the comprehensive
>>> child-care systen has been destroyed completely, with all consequences
>>> this has for working families. Women are forced out of the production
>>> process. Prices for housing and transportation have exploded.
>
>
>Oh come on. The 'comprehensive child care policy' was a cheap-skate
>daytime orphanage to overcome the GDR's chronic labour-shortage.
I did not say anything about the motivation of that policy. What counts in this context are the results: In the former GDR women were much more included in the productive process and not simply reduced to the household and the process of childcare. Thats basically something progressive. Because women got their own income they were not dependant on their husbands, thus giving the right to divorce a meaning.
After you have been defending the progressive slave-holders, now you are praising Christian values like the family as opposed to Communist creches and kindergartens.
>Next
>you'll be praising Rumania's progressive abortion-as-contraception
>policy.
I dont know about Rumania, so I keep silent, but are you opposed to the right on abortion as well?
Johannes