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[quote=Anonymous]1) People mostly work longer hours
2) Even when they work 40 hours a week, they are mostly expected to juggle emails and messages pertaining to work outside of work hours
3) It is much less common to have a SAHP
4) Therefore it is much more common to have to squeeze all of your errands into lunch breaks, evenings and weekends so they take much longer
5) You actually have to supervise your kids now.  I was the sole aftercare for myself and my younger brother at age 10.  Now you have to either pay someone to supervise your kids or do it yourself.  Legally.  Even if you think your kid is old enough, someone could technically call CPS on me for running into the gas station to pay cash for my gas if it meant my kids were alone in a car for 1 whole minute.
6) There are far fewer life skills taught to my generation.  I was lucky that prior to age 10 I had a SAHM, so I actually got to watch her cook dinner every day, and I have a general idea of how to make lots of things.  If I had gone from daycare to latchkey kid, when was I supposed to pick up skills like cooking, how to manage finances, how to keep a clean house?  If you already know how to do these things, then they seem like simple, basic tasks, but if your own parents did much of this when you were asleep or at daycare or at school, then you may literally not know how.[/quote]

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