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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To those who are saying child-care is so short-term: what do you do when they're 13-year-old 7th graders and school lets out at 2:30 and there is no aftercare in middle school? Do you leave them alone from 2:30 until you get home at 6:00, or cobble together after-school clubs or hire a babysitter or what? Aren't those the hours in which they either do something enriching (which usually involves a parent driving them around) or get into trouble?[/quote]

A lot of jobs around here now allow work from home/flexible hours.  We haven't hit the middle schools years yet, but DH and I both have flexible jobs that allow us to set our own hours, stagger our schedules, and have at least one of us working from home every day.  There are others in our neighborhood with similarly flexible jobs or who SAH.  I imagine when the time comes, we could set up a carpool to share the treking around to after school activities or hire an after school nanny.  This is part of our long term equation not to leave the workforce because we may have a hard time finding other jobs that allow us the freedom we currently have.  It makes sense to have two low 6 figure flexible jobs than to have one high earner shouldering the financial burden and the other doing all the home/kid stuff.  But other families may need to have someone at home long term even after daycare ends for the reasons you cited.  It's such an individualized situation.  That's why OP should consider the long term and what her career is/will be like vs what her families needs will be in the future.  It's short sighted to just look at current income and childcare costs even if the answer is that SAH ultimately makes the most sense for her family.[/quote]

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