Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!alb From: alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Rights and Rosen: Rebuttal to T. C. Wheeler Message-ID: <2965@alice.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Aug-84 19:45:35 EDT Article-I.D.: alice.2965 Posted: Tue Aug 21 19:45:35 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 22-Aug-84 01:44:22 EDT References: <967@pyuxa.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 22 I claim that T. C. Wheeler is absolutely wrong when he says that how one rears one's child is none of anybody else's business. It most certainly is. When that child grows up, he will become an integral part of the world which we all must share. We will all feel the effect that he has upon the society. I'm exaggerating? Look at such radical groups as the KKK, Moral Majority (OK, radical and reactionary groups), etc. Why do they continue? Why don't they just die out with their generation? Because their members raise their children to believe what they do. The members of the KKK actually BELIEVE other races to be inferior. They cannot understand why others do not. Why? Because they are narrow minded and were brought up under STRONG parentage. To counter Mr. (is it in fact Mr?) Wheeler's examples, my family also has three children (of which I am the youngest), all of whom were brought up under parents who let us decide values and opinions for ourselves. The oldest (my sister) is now about to enter her fourth year of medical school. The middle (my brother) is an EXCELLENT carpenter. I'm about to enter Brown University. So you see, allowing children the right to an open mind does not create ''monsters.'' Mr. Wheeler, it's more than 15 years since my parents started being parents, and the results are in.