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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if one half of a lesbian couple chooses to stay home with the kids?[/quote]

I'm from San Francisco, so I know a lot of gay and lesbian couples. Usually there are two working parents in these scenarios, but perhaps that is because of the obscene cost of living in SF (and the obscene cost of reproductive medicine, surrogacy, and adoption), and because to some extent, SF employers tend to be much more progressive about childcare issues (for example, the big  tech firms have on-site daycare--it is expensive but it's right there on site--and extended adoption/parental leave).

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I will also add that the community of gay parents and their supporters is very strong here so emergency childcare/pickups, etc. almost seem to be less of an issue for most gay couples, haha. Gay couples and immigrants with extended family have great networks of childcare...it's the straight people who moved from out of town to SF that struggle the most with finding emergency childcare.[/quote]

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