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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for posting OP. Im currently pregnant with my first, a daughter, and I wonder/worry about the right example to set for her.  I could stay home and part of me would like to for at least a year but Im worried about never being able to get back into the job market at the level Im at now after taking a break. Which leads me to really worry about not setting a professional working example to my daughter as she gets older.  My own mom worked part time my entire life and still to to this day complains about how stressed and tired she is and how if she had more money she would have been able to divorce my dad (long story)...and honestly I respect her less for NOT making the decision to seek fulltime work when we were younger so she could have had more financial independence and options.   I guess its an ongoing struggle for women that never ends on how our choices are perceived by our children. [/quote]

I had a mom that went back to work when I was in K.  She started working part-time and switched to full time later on. The reason my mother went full time was so that she could save money and obtain health insurance so she could leave my dad.  They worked things out and she kept working full time.  I had older siblings that were in charge when my parents were working and they were great but I would have much rather had my mom home.  I was always so jealous of the kids who had moms who stayed home and baked cookies.  Now, I SAH and my children never come home to freshly baked cookies.[/quote]

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