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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This story is full of privilege and I am tired of it. The reality is that many moms can't afford to take a day off to be with their kids because their choice is not about "I could scale down my work and be more with the kids," the choice is "If I take a few hours off for kids' party I will lose my job and my kids will have nothing to eat, I won't have a place over our heads. This same situation is what most fathers have to deal with. 
There is a problem with media and it is that it constantly promoted some kind of ideal life, where people have privilege to have a lot of choices, that is hence skewing the perception of people to think that they are failures if they can't provide all of this for their kids. This is a fairy tale that media is promoting and a reason why people are messed up thinking that if a parent is not Betty Crocker and Madeline Albright, at the same time, she/he is not doing it right.
All the pps declaring her a bad mother are delusional matrix like drones promoting this "Mayfair" lifestyle. Nothing but privileged women(probably white) that can't ever imagine that most of people in the world can't even fathom what they are talking about, yet here in the US these drones are imposing their idiotic ideas on all the women of the world. 
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Where do you live?  I live in the US, as does the author of the article.  Sorry if discussing issues in the US is a problem to you.

She calls herself a single-parent but she's really not.  Her ex has "joint" custody in that he has full custody except when she visits.  But you cannot address that at all?  [/quote]
I live in the DMV and this is an issue here, yet your are assuming moms and dads in the U.S. are all in this position? This imposition and idea that she could choose her kids but choose her work is a fairly tale you and her are living, don't speak of what you know nothing of. Your gilded cage is clouding your sight, yes, even for the U.S. and for the DMV too.[/quote]

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.  She cannot choose her kids?  She cannot choose her work?

I don't live in a gilded cage, although I do live in the DMV.  [/quote]

DP. You obviously live in a gilded cage. You just can't see the bars, because that's too scary for you, so you look away.[/quote]

So there's two of you?   :roll: [/quote]
Clearly there is two of us, and many more, I am pp of the long first quote post. Inserting a funny e moji, mocking what you don't understand, is only making you look worse in a serious conversation that you can't comprehend.[/quote]

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