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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous].

To try to clarify my question:

How common are two full time, WAHM, working professional parents without family nearby and both commute 30+ min to work? And where are such households?  My theory is one parent will downshift or work close to home. Or I guess they hire a nanny/driver?[/quote]

Most people I know with kids are in families where both parents work outside of the home and don't have family help. Commutes are typically 30+ minutes though the ICC has helped cut off some time for some families, but not for me. We all use daycare and we all pick a few days a year where we show up for school stuff. No one I know has a nanny but some of us do hire people to drive our kids to sports if practice is after school. [/quote]

OP here. Looks like I lose this debate. So in McLean and up MoCo this arrangement is the norm? How do folks manage, do you only see the kids from 6-bedtime?  We live close in just b/c of short commutes and good schools, but culturally we at not representative b/c we don't have much money and no one stays home. We don't care and have loved all the families we've met, but do see DC wondering why we can't come to school more and I wonder if we will have later divides such as summer camp or activities that start right after school. Already we see the play dates after school with all the SAHM and we would love to participate but logistics prevents us. [/quote]

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