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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parenting well is difficult and exhausting. It’s impossible to do it while pushing very hard in your career. People can get away with it if it’s only one parent who has a big career, or if they end up lucky with very easy to parent kids. But otherwise not.[/quote]

Agree.  And while you can outsource common parenting tasks (driving, cooking, cleaning, etc), you absolutely cannot outsource good parenting.  [/quote]

Even if you get very “good” kids in this situation, they may have difficult relationships with the parent. My friend was a pretty “good” kid but raised by the nanny (parents are an investment banking managing director and a biglaw partner). Very polite, very close to friends, very close to the nanny and grandparents, but difficult relationships with own parents. [/quote]

My sister and brother in law both have big careers and their three kids are close with them. There are many more factors at play besides career that determine parental relationship with kids, including kids personalities, parents personalities, parenting styles, quality of time spent together, sibling dynamics etc.[/quote]

You can’t possibly be this dumb [/quote]

Growing up my mom worked very part time and my dad had a big career.  I was, and still am, close with both of them.  Of course a kid can be close with a parent who has a big career.  [/quote]

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