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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew this was coming and I'm still SO ANGRY. The work from school and the connections to the other kids is what is keeping my kid in a routine and alleviating anxiety. This just leaves us all to fend for ourselves and is totally abandoning the kids. [/quote]
Repeat after me: as parents we are 100% responsible for our children 100% of the time. [/quote]

Jeez, have some empathy. Families have set up routines that allow their lives to work smoothly. It's all been upended. What do you get out of scolding people who are overwhelmed by unexpected circumstances?[/quote]

I guess if you can't manage your children turn them over to foster care.

People have been caring for children for thousands of years.  Hire a teenager. Hire a college student. Hire a grandma. Fly in a senior relative to live with you.  Ask at your local house of worship. Generally they will have an elderly lady looking for some cash.

Summer comes around every year.  Parents should be responsible for their children.

Parents have had their lives upended for thousands of years due to wars and pestilence and moving to new countries. Resilience. Resilience. Resilience.[/quote]

This is ridiculous:

1.  Many people who move to a new country send their kids to daycare or use school as the main form of childcare.
2. It is more difficult to find people to hire given everything is shut down due to a contagious disease.
3.  It is more difficult to fly in older family members because this is due to a contagious disease that disproportionately affects older people.
4.  If there was a war on US soil I don't think Sue from HR would need to worry about childcare because there would be no one working during said war.
5.  For most of the past thousand years there hasn't been the internet so most people weren't expected to work from home in times of emergency.

Stop saying you chose to have a child so deal with it in these extreme times. Otherwise there's a list of other things you should be posting about choice:
1.  You chose to smoke so you don't get healthcare just deal with your cancer
2.  You chose to become a doctor so suck it up that there isn't PPE available
3.  You chose have children while you were impoverished so suck it up and don't use welfare
4.  You chose to get married so suck it up if your spouse cheats

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