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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your parents are reasonable and not bad enough to have caused (physical/emotional) trauma, why are they not spending a eeek with your parents and a week with his parents???

Parenting takes a village. It's not solo! If they have younger cousins, perhaps they can spend a week with Aunt/Uncle to cousin bond.

Sympathies to you and your family. This is a long result of people refusing to hold their governments accountable for paid parental leave and flexible schedules for everyone. The longer people refuse to stand in solidarity and demand the same benefits for all of society. The longer people in this country suffer.

Actions/Votes/Racism/ 
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Really not the norm to have that kind of help. Many grandparents are still working their own jobs. Or are not healthy enough for childcare, and the parents are taking care of them in addition to their children! Or they simply arent willing or interested.[/quote]

Or caregiving for others!

My MIL is dead and my FIL is older and no longer physically capable of taking care of the kids. Also not interested.

My own parents are amazing and are willing to take our kids for a week this summer for the first time. But for most of the decade after their own retirements, they were taking care of their elderly parents (which involved a ton of travel), while alternating who was home with my disabled adult sibling. They have not had it easy. Unfortunately we also find it hard to "be the village" for them because they live in a 5000 person town where I can't find work.

I was just talking to a neighbor who's an immigrant who was saying she wished she could have more kids, and would in her country, but can't without her family to help. They are across an ocean. It's hard! [/quote]

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