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[quote=Anonymous]I hear you but I think your post is overly simplistic.

My parents both worked full-time, but left work at 5pm and we ate dinner by 6pm. I lived in a neighborhood with lots of other kids and sidewalks and the bus let me out on the corner of my very residential street about 5 houses down. If I had extra-curriculars they were usually where a SAHM could just roll by on her way and I would jump in for a ride. Guessing this was your life, too.

My husband and I both work full-time, but (in non-pandemic times) he leaves work around 6pm and often doesn't arrive home until 7pm at best. My job in academia is far more flexible and I generally work far fewer than 40 hours and am home much of the time, but there are days when I don't get home until 8 or 9 or 10. If I worked a traditional office job with traditional office hours I don't see why I wouldn't be in the same boat as him. Our child's extra curriculars are not in the neighborhood, and our neighbors -- all lovely -- don't do the same ones. Logistics are vastly more complicated, and we live in a fairly suburban settings. Lots of middle class families we know these days live in more urban environments with challenging issues around transit and safety that are much harder to navigate than when I was a middle class youth.

Times have changed and if parents want to SAH to simplify logistics, for whatever reason, then that is far from "creepy."

You do you, and let others make decisions that are sound for them. [/quote]

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