"So I suppose it's not at all selfish to have children, go to work and not look after them yourself, then also expect nursery facilities within walking distance of home in a quiet part of Forest Hill..." (emp added)

Well, well. (Rolls eyes)

I wondered how long it would be before this was All the Fault of Working Mothers (unless Gingernuts, you are going to come back waxing lyrical about stay-at-home fatherhood... in which case, I will humbly apologise for my assumption that you, like almost everyone else who makes comments like that, would like to see a return to those halcyon days when men were men, and the economy was different enough that it was not necessary for many families to have two breadwinners...)

I might not agree with you, but well done for sticking your head above the parapet and being honest enough to let us know what at least some of your issue with this facility actually is. Good luck with paying off the National Debt in a UK where all families contain only one tax-paying parent. Selfish? No more or less than anyone else.

As someone has already said, this aspect of the thing is a generational and/or lifestyle one.

I don't think it is helpful to have it mixed up with the other factors in the dispute, and those who do have will need to recognise this, put it to one side and focus on substantive issues if any mediation is to work, which I sincerely hope will be the case.

This post was last modified: 02-02-2012 04:20 PM by Contrary Mary.