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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"That's why the work world should be more accepting of women taking breaks from their career. And if your job is so much more important that your child's first year why are you having a child anyway? That's the part that I don't get.

When you're home they're asleep, you also need sleep so you let them cry, put them in another room and just hope for them to sleep through the night... When do you actually spend time (raise) your child? When getting them ready in the morning and rushing them through a bath to get them to bad? I doubt it."

Why did your DH have a child? [/quote]

I'm the PP who said that the working world doesn't accept people taking multiple breaks from their careers. The response was that my career is more important than my child and I shouldn't have children. I'm sorry you feel that way.

My mother worked full time and I went to day care. My grandmother, who was born in 1918, worked full time (in a factory). So none of them should have had children? You really believe that the world would be better for your children if only upper middle class people reproduced? You really believe that? You really believe that your daughters will be better off if only men had high-powered careers (ie, politicians, judges, surgeons, physicists, economists)? You really believe the world would be better that way?

In terms of raising my children, my children have personality traits that are exactly like my husband and me (for better or worse). My eldest son loves to read just like me. My middle son love to tinker with mechanical things like his father. Why is it that they have taken after their parents and not their infant day care providers if the day care providers raised them? They do not imitate their preschool Montessori teachers, but they very much imitate us. They have our religion and cultural values that originate in our countries of origin. Their day care providers were Americans, but they have our cultural characteristics. How can that be if we didn't raise them?

Please explain. I'm very confused.

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