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“I’ve never had any intention of having a
child. I definitely see children as destroying my lifestyle. It’s
inconceivable that I would become pregnant. I realise my attitude
is unusual, but I have other interests which crowd out everything
else, and I think I’d go around the bend if my small amount of
spare time was taken up by children."
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Former NZ Prime Minister Helen Clarke (How did a
woman like this become PM of NZ?)
This article will no doubt create some
controversy amongst women and in many ways before we published the
site it already did. Moving around Australia these days from
regional to the cities it's difficult to work out whether women are
really getting a bad deal. They seem to be very predominate in the
workforce on all levels, extremely dominate in our childcare, pre
school and primary schooling areas of education. They are so
dominate in this area that males have virtually disappeared. Have
we created a society where males are actually being raised by women
right through to secondary school and after?
We here at malenirvana believe there are
many things that link a lot of male issues to the very fact that
males have been pushed away from certain educational areas of
teaching and parenting and this may be one of the many reasons why
we have huge issues with male suicides in Australia and New
Zealand. We are not suggesting one gendergroup should dominate the
other but at present from where we sit it's time for males to stand
up and be counted.
We are not convinced at malenirvana.com that
in Australia and New Zealand women in general have a plight. They
seem to have a lot more say and control in domestic, family,
social, employment and educational areas than they are prepared to
admit.
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