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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Parents don't raise their own kids anymore[/b]. So they want to spend more time with them when they are around.[/quote]

I assume you refer to a decrease in the number of SAHMs?
I grew up in a lower middle class area.  Out of my graduating class from high school, I can count on one hand the number of kids who had a SAHP for any significant amount of time.  As children, we were all in daycare, after school care, or being watched by a babysitter or grandparent.  Both parents worked to make ends meet.  This isn't some new thing.[/quote]

I know more SAHM's than I did growing up.  Child care was much more affordable then.  Now it doesn't pay if you aren't high income for both parents to work.  Growing up our grandparents would drive in for holidays and long breaks.  Now, I'm lucky if my parents will take my child for an hour.  My child has never slept over their grandparents house and they would never help in an emergency as they are too wrapped up in their own lives.  We live 5 minutes away.[/quote]

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