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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a progressive wife and mother of two kids and I've worked some pretty intense jobs and I'm the sole breadwinner. I can't imagine failing to be home for most weeknight dinners. That is just unacceptable. And this DH sounds like a saint. I am amazed by all these responses suggesting the couple should prioritize her work to that extreme. Sure she should be able to have a job and work hard and work at night sometimes. But not most of the time, that is nuts. And yes they should prioritize DH's job - they really need his income not hers. Not that hers isn't helpful but they probably can't live on just hers alone.[/quote]

Yikes.  You don't sound that progressive to me.  You sound pretty judgy and old-fashioned.  DH is a "saint"?  For what?  Taking care of his own kids? DH's job should be prioritized because he earns more? You do recognize that he earns more because his DW gave him 7 years of SAHM support?

This is how women get wiped out of society or at best diminished to 2nd class status - they step out to care for kids so that the spouse can focus on career development and then the woman is never provided the same degree of support by the partner and shamed by society as a bad parent. [/quote]

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