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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To divorced spouses who are full time parents to children of military, diplomatic, and national security personnel.

Could this ever gain traction?
Because that is where I am. I have our kids FT because their dad frequently travels and/or long term overseas post and the kids can’t go with him.

RTO for me has meant spending 3.5 hours commuting every day to a location nearly 50 miles away. This has turned my kids lives upside down. I am gone from early morning until evening. We are only about a month in but already feeling a lot of pain and I am worried about summer. They are too old for camps but too young to completely be on their own. And my agency also canceled compelling reasons exceptions and my medical RA was denied.

I get that they don’t want to help a divorced spouse of military, but shouldn’t someone care about how it affects the kids?

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Lots of solutions. 
1) Move
2) Quit
3) Enroll kid in activities near work and take them with you. 
4) hire someone to be with kids. 
5) Impossible they are too old for camp or be alone. I say that as my kid is 18 and doing Camp this summer as a full time counselor getting paid. Last two years she was a CIT counselor in training and got a small stipend. 
6) switch jobs to something with summers off. 
7) remarry
8) have parents or inlaws stay with you this summer. 
9) how is this any different than single moms, divorced moms widowed moms of non military? My friend he got divorced and spouse left for a younger person and moved out of state. She did not care about the two kids much. Does he get an exemption?

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