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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I think the idea of mom stays home with the kids sounds a bit too Leave it to Beaver to me. Why can't people be good at their careers and still be good parents? What if both parents are really good at their career...Is it a great benefit to have someone who's really good at what they do, just drop it for 5-7 years until their kids are in school? Why can't we have top notch child care people who are really good at early child hood care, and be able to make it both accessable, and affordable? Really...if we can all only be great at one thing in life...how the hell would we ever be good parents.....thats about as broad of a skillset as you can get. To blanket parenting as one singular skill seems silly to me. I hope that the government and private bussiness both take initiatives to try and keep a skilled working mother in the work force. Given how short workers are these days...would be a damn shame to lose a lot of them who offer great skills to the work force to uphold this utopian ideal that mom stays home to raise the kids.
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Basically akin to the old saying: Fast, cheap, right. Pick two.
There is a tradeoff with everything, and in this case, the woman in the story doesn't want to pay for her decisions, both to resume her career, and to use a care facility that charges three grand a month. Wah wah wah.