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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op you mention being from a "culture" where women don't let career get in the way of kids.  People don't usually use the term "culture" to describe being from western europe or australia - so i'm going to assume you're from asia, africa or south America.

If you're a woman in those geographic regions with a "relentless" career (to quote OP), that means you're wealthy.  And a common feature of those regions is that the wealthy have tons of family and tons of cheap, cheap labor to help out.  By way of example, my friends who did embassy gigs in indonesia or banking gigs in HK generally had at least 3 live in servants - one cook, one child care, and one housecleaner/child care - and they were all kind of always on the clock. And they cost pennies.  That's pretty different than the US where we had around $400k of income when DS was born (which makes us wealthy) but a single 9-5 nanny makes a big dent in that so that we  had to watch our budget.  [/quote]

Yup, this. We spend about $70k/yr on the kind of childcare we want for our kids. Even on $700k/yr it’s a LOT and forces us to crack down on other things. [/quote]

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