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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with the previous poster about striving for overall balance but history shows that child-rearing and the economic/physical/social consequences of it fall more heavily on women.  So unless they are vigilant about the inequality and create shared sacrifices when they easily can (like this situation), then how can they ward against that?[/quote]

They can't. I do much more than my husband. It's worth it anyway.[/quote]

So because you don't have an equal marriage you think other women should just deal with inequality rather than striving to make things equal? Stop trying to drag the rest of us down to your unequal balance.[/quote]

I don't think writing a check can compensate a stay at home parent for everything that parent does in child rearing, homemaking (I don't see that as a dirty term), and in strengthening a relationship.  Can I write my partner a bill for a counseling session when I listen to him after he has had a bad day?  Can he write me one?  What about the time he was there and played nurse after surgery and I was laid up?

Relationships are seldom perfectly equal.  I find it alarming that somehow some amount of money can fix this.  I just don't see how it does.  I know everything my partner has done for me and that he unconditionally loves me and the kids (ok there might be some conditions for me but still).  There is no way to put a monetary figure on this.  [/quote]

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