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[b]Because you've shown your priorities to be elsewhere.[/b]  Which, again, is FINE and totally respectable, but to say you're as qualified/prepared/motivated as someone who's worked straight through to the senior associate level without time off is just false (and why situations you described - SAHMs coming back as senior associates - don't happen).  I'm not the pp you're responding to, but WOHM struggles do exist.  As do SAHM struggles.  To say they don't, and that the 'reward' (career success, continued earning power, financial independence) shouldn't belong to those who made the sacrifice - is naive and insulting.[/quote] 
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What are the priorities a parent is showing, when he or she stays home with the kids instead of working?

That the children are more important than the job?  That the kids come first?

Is the reverse true?   Are moms and dads who work and use childcare saying that their career is more important than their children?   That their jobs come first and their kids will come second?

Because we aren't supposed to believe that, right?   We all know that people can prioritize BOTH their children AND their work -- they balance them right?  Working, while you have small children with a nanny or in daycare, doesn't mean you don't prioritize your kids and think they are important... right?

So why would taking time off of work for a while, mean that you don't prioritize work, just want to balance things?   The balance when the kids were small meant you went one way; but now that the kids are older, you are able to balance your kids and career JUST AS IF you had been working all that time.

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Wait - seriously? Because if you're working and you have kids, you're managing both. If you've dropped work, then you're not managing both. That's why.[/quote]

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