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OP here.

This is silly. We just think it is a shame to not take advantage of so many opportunities available to women in this country. [/quote]

There is no "we".  There is just you.

[quote=Anonymous]Motherhood is amazing and life changing but honestly, children really really need you to be there the first 12 years of their life. [/quote]

That's your opinion, nothing else. Why 12 years? Are you sure it's not 8? Or 13.5?

[quote=Anonymous]Once they become teenagers they do not need a parent hovering over their every move.

Women need to develop a sense of identity aside from being a mom and a purpose besides being a mother. What will you do once your kid goes off to college? Once the hard work of 4 am feedings, cleaning poop and giving baths are over, a woman needs to find other means to occupy her time.[/quote]

Oh you little thing you.  Let's play ten questions.  Before the women's liberation movement, before women in the workforce, pretty much since mankind appeared on this earth until maybe a hundred years ago, do you think that no woman on this planet has developed a sense of identity or had other means to occupy her time?  So in your little mind, the only way to develop a sense of identity and had other means to occupy a woman's time is paid employment? Interesting.  Are you quite sure you went to college?  It seems that the entire instruction in history has escaped you.

[quote=Anonymous]Why would you not want to develop your mind, learn new things, grow as an individual and as a professional? Don't you want to step outside your house in the suburbs and find things to talk about other than how there's a great deal on Jack Rogers at Nordstroms or how your 6 year old needs glasses?[/quote]

Even more interesting!  So the only way to develop your mind, learn new things and grow as an individual is through paid employment?  So essentially, you think that the entire womenfolk of Pakistan, before the generation where employment was acceptable, has undeveloped minds and hasn't grown as individuals? And they all live in the suburbs? I'm trying to decide whether you're speaking out of ignorance or a simple failure of imagination.

[quote=Anonymous]You're in the United States of America. You can be more than just a housewife. Don't you want to show your daughter or son that you, as a woman, can take an active role in your community?

I don't stay up at night worried for what you're missing out on but sometimes, as I am walking down the aisle at whole foods and see a woman who is clearly a SAHM, these thoughts cross my mind. [/quote]

Lol no, you don't stay up at night worried about it, you just find time away from your personal mind development and ahem, GROWTH, to write moronic posts. And say idiotic things like "in America, a woman has a choice whether to work or not."  
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