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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also I’m the poster above.

If you really, really care about children spending more time with their parents, the answer isn’t having one of them (and you only mean the mother) give up work. The answer is to give more mothers the education, training, and social capital to insist on jobs where we are able to spend more time with our children.

Being *extremely good* and in high demand at my job means I wrote my own terms for my return to work. I took six months maternity leave. I started work in the morning when my baby went down for her morning nap, which she did in my office. After that I took her to daycare, where she stayed for about 4 hours until her afternoon nap ended, then I picked her up for the day. All meetings took place in the four hours I was in the office while she was in daycare. My daycare is, as I have pointed out, excellent. And my baby spent more of her waking hours with me than a home else.

So, empower women, stop dragging them down. [/quote]

Your situation sounds optimal in many ways.  I salute you.  If the answer is to "give more mothers the education, training, and social capital to insist on jobs where we are able to spend more time with our children" then that push has to come from them, not from me.  If mothers, and fathers too, don't demand it, it won't ever happen.  And if parents are persuaded that their children are just as well off in daycare as they are with a parent then why would they demand otherwise?

I am doing literally nothing to drag women down.  Just because some on DCUM disagree with my opinions about daycare does not mean I'm doing anything to drag women down, in fact in my non-DCUM life it is quite the contrary.[/quote]

You are repeatedly denying (or ignoring) the critical, society-sustaining role that working mothers play in this country. You refuse to acknowledge and appreciate the role they play in your daily life and the life of your loved ones.

Please don’t make me go back and quote you calling childcare workers “any idiot” and your various other denigrating comments about women in this thread.  Take the excellent example of another women on the thread worried about socioeconomic issues who overstepped, apologize, and do better going forward. [/quote]

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