Monday 16 January 2012

National politics affects the family

Watch a few minutes from the documentary footage on Youtube, from 44:00 to 48:00.

Who should exert control over what happens inside the family home? Anyone? No-one? You? Parents? The state? The laws of a country?

Remember how mama's hair turned grey with Mr Balls and Mr Badman? I had visions of sanctioned council troops given freedom to rifle through my knicker drawer. But still not quite so horrendous as the trials for the family in our reading this week from Wild Swans, Chapters 17 & 18.

Politics at a national level affects what happens round the kitchen table. Ladies, it is your responsibility as a member of the family and the wider society to engage with this decision-making process.

No pressure. Now should Michael Gove stay or go and what do you want for breakfast?

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