Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 9, 1993                   TAG: 9306090300
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: METRO 
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NOT HOME ALONE, BUT WITH 10 KIDS?

Barrett states that women should go home and leave their jobs to capable men who can then do something remarkably outstanding that we couldn't do - turn the economy around. If women left their jobs, as he advises, then expenses such as day care, a second car, clothes and eating out more often with business associates would not be incurred.

Does he really believe that women should be trapped at home, eating leftover Rice-A-Roni naked? Not forgetting, of course, the mandatory 10 children (five of which should be male) that should be at home with every woman to reduce the national debt. Are these children never going to be able to leave home unless dad's around?

Barrett seems to think that women working outside the home is all about money. Perhaps money does define us. Perhaps we want to be recognized as equal human beings with intellect and strength. Some women can achieve that in the home, others can't. His ideas deny what is rightfully our choice to make, and we do not choose in spite of men, but for ourselves.

BETHANY L. BLANKENSHIP ROANOKE