LETTERS
Letters Motherhood Re: “Motherhood and the Liberated Woman,” July/August: As the single parent of a 6 year old girlchild, I may possibly have a slant on this whole issue that your...
...But as the leader of a $20billion agency, who was put there presumably because he was a champion of Vietnam veterans, we find his record dismal...
...Cleland allowed $488 million of the $500million decline in the GI Bill between FY 78 and FY 79 to be taken for the most part away from Vietnam veterans...
...He opposed a Senate-passed GI Bill...
...JOHN D. HULL Altamonte Springs, Florida B e editors reply: Max Cleland is a courageous model for handicapped persons...
...She has earned the degree and is now a researcher at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington...
...It seems to me we should walk a mile in another man’s shoes before we criticize him and, when he is like Cleland and can’t wear shoes, we should extend the distance considerably...
...Fallows talks of, and even farther from the even more obvious gratifications of childlessness, to such an extent that both become irrelevant...
...Any sensitive man or woman can experience the great joys and delights of having a child-especially if someone else is back home taking care of those children...
...We need more real men like him...
...She says her husband shares the responsibility for the care of their son, Tommy, at night and on weekends...
...Instead, the parent is faced with responsibility, not for physical comfort and well-being, but for creating environments conducive to learning and the development of an effective and well-rounded personality, and establishing a child’s trust, self-confidence and sense of uniqueness...
...S. R. CLARK Juneau, Alaska The editors reply: In 1974, Fallows left a highly promising career as a political reporter in Washington and followed his wife to the University of Texas where she was seeking a Ph.D...
...I believe you owe him an apology...
...In time, the problems with babysitters resolve themselves, the more obnoxious of the babybehaviour fades into memory, and the parent is faced with an aspect that doesn’t get much discussion in the women’s movement: How to raise this small, emerging person to become a competent, responsive human being...
...Letters Motherhood Re: “Motherhood and the Liberated Woman,” July/August: As the single parent of a 6 year old girlchild, I may possibly have a slant on this whole issue that your writers-through inexperience, only-have not arrived at...
...Fallows (“The Case for Children”, July/August) and his speechwriting ability, I must take issue with his rhapsodic paragraphs on children...
...He doesn’t say a word about the career his wife has given up and how she feels about it...
...JUDITH CHAMBERLAIN Springfield, Virginia With all due respect to Mr...
...And that is the real task of childbearing and -rearing...
...As a below-knee amputee veteran of World War 11, I admire Cleland immensely...
...The emphasis, of necessity, then, shifts away from the obvious gratifications Mr...
...He never appeared before any committee to defend the President’s program for upgrading bad discharges...
...Max Cleland Your comment ‘in the September issue [Tilting at Windmills] about Veterans Administrator Max Cleland gaining a reputation for “caving in” to the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars induced an extraordinary amount of resentment in me...
...You report this alleged “caving in” like a gossipmonger, offering no facts to support your statement...
...But he recommended that the President sign punitive legislation sought by the VFW and American Legion and the House Veterans committee...
...in linguistics...
...What inputs do you make to help this wild young creature that has been entrusted to you learn to like him or herself, and at the same time learn consideration for other humans...
...This contrasts so oddly with Nicholas Lemann’s seemingly factual article on President Carter, which tends to clarify why the President has had such difficulty in establishing a direction for the federal government...
...You do him an injustice when you imply that he is letting down his fellow Vietnam veterans...
...One can only imagine, since he says nothing to the contrary and since he has an obviously time consuming and demanding job (chief speechwriter for President Carter) that his wife’s job is child care...
...Fallows doesn’t say a word about his being willing to give up a year or a few years of career to care for his children...
Vol. 10 • October 1978 • No. 7
