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The Nanny Boom--Motherhood by Proxy (limericks) (du20000711-01)
    Yesterday Fox News reported 
    to what proxy-moms have resorted.
    It is uncanny 
    that now they hire nannies 
    for kids to have proper consorting.
    To teach their kids morals and charm 
    and still chase careers with aplomb,
    they will "invest" 
    30-grand for "the best" 
    not knowing such person is "Mom."   
© 2000 ---Inspired by Fox News Channel story yesterday (07-10-00) about the exploding trend in Silicon Valley for mothers with careers to pay $30,000 to $70,000 per year to provide "the best" for their children by hiring "highly educated" nannies to raise their children, help the children feel they are important members of the family "team," and teach them "morals" and "family values."  Fortunately for my kids, the "highly educated" person who taught them "morals" and "family values" and made them feel they were the center of our family was their Mom.   Jim Wrenn, Editor.


Moms Against Guns-- Motherhood Eclipsed by Activism  
( Mother's Day limericks)(du20000514-01)
    The moms-against-guns claim statistics 
    are proof we need anti-gun fixes
    Their glib use of stats 
    obscures the real facts 
    about which they're cleverly picky
    As part of their mantra they say ...  
    that "thirteen kids die ev'ry day,
    Because there are not 
    enough trigger-locks ... " 
    as if that's the accident rate.
    But all but a few of those deaths 
    are products of criminal quests
    And crime-deaths are not 
    prevented by locks 
    'cause thugs don't make safety their test
    The accident rate they don't say-- 
    It's less than one every four days
    Of course that is bad, 
    but what is more sad?  
    That air-bags killed one-fifty-eight !
    And why did those air-bag deaths happen? 
    The gov'ment required us to have 'em !
    And how did we lose 
    the freedom to choose 
    our own way to have self-protection?
    It started with such good intentions 
    soon after the seat-belt's invention
    Some wouldn't choose 
    their seat-belts to use, 
    so then we got air-bag mandation.
    Like those who presumed air-bags best, 
    the anti-gun moms won't confess
    That really their goal 
    is that we be told 
    just how we should care for ourselves
    Those anti-gun moms love statistics ...  
    except those that show they're complicit:
    Few kids do crime 
    with mothers full-time 
    unlike those whose moms are careerists.
    And since very few kids do crimes 
    when raised by their mothers full-time
    More could be saved 
    if more moms would say 
    "I'll put my kids first all the time"
    It's clear that such one simple choice 
    by more moms to heed nature's voice
    Would save far more lives 
    than all the things tried 
    since day-care became their first choice.
    The much lower rate of youth crime 
    was when most moms mothered full-time
    All children thirst 
    to have Mama first 
    instead of just "quality" time
    I'm thankful my wife said to me:  
    "A mother full-time I will be."
    And she had no fear 
    to quit her career 
    so she could fulfill our kids' needs.
    And so to those mothers whose voice 
    is loudest in favor of choice
    I recommend 
    the place to begin 
    is listening to nature's own voice.
    If follower-moms would just stop 
    behaving like sheep in a flock
    They won't need to guess 
    to know what is best 
    to help their kids get to the top.
    The number of kids this would save 
    would vastly exceed their parade
    More would receive 
    the love that they need 
    and fewer would go to their graves.
    Of course moms aren't solely to blame 
    'cause fathers deserve lots of blame
    Many beget 
    and then just forget 
    and leave their poor offspring in shame. 
    Too many lasses and lads 
    have fathers but never have dads
    They just plant their seed, 
    then gutlessly leave 
    their kids to be lonely and sad.
    The view we must bring back again 
    is no-wedlock births are a shame.
    To fight the good fight, 
    admit Quayle was right, 
    and never mock daddies again. 
© 2000

.New-Millennium Child Care:  
Yuppie Version of Pet Care (limerick 20000507-01)
(Can you say "taxpayer funded"? -- Can you say "Hillary Care"?) 
    I'm tired of the whining and frets 
    by couples who have kids as pets. 
    The proper child care 
    is Mom who is there-- 
    not someone who's paid to hear frets.
    Too many women fall prey 
    to outlandlish notions that they 
    must have a career 
    to satisfy peers 
    and leave kids with strangers all day.
    Why do career gals suppose 
    that others should pay through the nose 
    so they can pay less 
    for care they think best 
    so they can keep up with the Jones? 
    My boys were quite lucky guys 
    as apples of their Mama's eyes.
    She had a career 
    but quit without fear 
    to be Mom for her special guys.
    She could have preferred a career 
    and sent them to child-care to rear,
    but she knew it best 
    that we all have less 
    for them to have more of her near. 
    Should one-income couples pay more 
    in taxes for child-care galore,
    so two-income fam'lies 
    can sample life's candies 
    and pay less for child-caring chores? 
    Of course the right answer is "No." 
    So who does that leave-- Do you know? 
    Those two-income fam'lies 
    and grandads and grannies-- 
    and college-kid's parents-- but whoa ! 
    All in those groups will say "No, 
    we just can't afford to pay mo' "
    Who, then, is left 
    to be made bereft 
    for yuppies to keep up their show? 
    Who should be brought to their knees 
    to pay for such big-spending sprees? 
    Please don't tax me, 
    and do not tax thee, 
    just tax that guy behind the big tree 
© 2000 (except last line) (Reprise from http://polisat.com/du2000/du000229.htm#20000206-03)
(Poetic License since New Millennium starts 01-01-2001 and did not start on 01-01-2000)