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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone else here feel like these high HHIs come primarily from ONE working parent, not two? It seems that the wealthiest families have a SAHM (rarely, a SAHD). Sometimes I feel "poorer" just b/c we both work. The majority of moms seems to SAH and volunteer at the school[/quote]

I felt this way at private. All the volunteering meetings were scheduled during the school day, and as I worked in downtown D.C. I could never make them. The kids with both parents working were also the ones in the after-school program, while the kids of SAHMs got to go home. When my kids got older it was a SAHM (bless her) who took them to travel soccer practice at 4pm.

Cue the pp who thinks the kids don't notice and it's the parents' problem. FWIW, my kids raised differences like this with me.[/quote]
YES, on the 4:00 PM practices. I know you said travel soccer, but IME private schools will randomly schedule practices at 4, like they just assume that a non-working parent, a parent with a very flexible work schedule (and a very short commute or works from home), or a driving nanny will just be able to get them there. [/quote]
Yes, 4:30 or 5:00 anything before 6:30 makes it difficult for working parents to get kids to practices, esp. with any kind of commute. And if you have to pick them up first at after-care and go home, it makes it even more difficult.[/quote]

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