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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I am on your wife's side for a whole host of reasons that have already been discussed here (the cumulative cost of extra childcare, the additional burdens that will fall to your wife when you're spending 3+ extra hours a day driving/caring for your mom, how the amount of care needed will continue to creep as your sister slacks, etc.).  But there's another huge piece of this that's even more compelling to me, which is that your mom is going to need a different living situation at some point, and that point may be sooner than you think.  Right now you and your family have the luxury of an opportunity to figure out a solution before it's an emergency.  If you don't deal with your mother's long-term care needs now, when will it happen?  When you get there one afternoon to watch her only to find she's wandered from the house at some point during the afternoon and no one knows where to find her?  When she takes a bad fall and breaks a hip (assuming the fall doesn't kill her)?  Your options are going to be very limited when you urgently need to find a nursing home for her, and she may end up somewhere far worse than she would if you made the transition now.[/quote]

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