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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's really about the expectations for parenting.  You can't have kids and keep living your pre-kids life without being branded a bad parent.  As soon as you have kids, your life becomes kid-centric with playgroups, music classes, sports practices, and on and on.  If you aren't interested in this shift, then you don't have kids.  [b]In prior generations, people just ignored their kids and went on with their adult lives.[/b][/quote]

For women, this last part was only true if they were of means.[/quote]

Not at all. I talked to my grandmother (working class) about raising kids in the 50s and once they were school age (and younger if they had older siblings to watch them) they were basically free-range. They would play with other kids in the street and appear at dinnertime. Absolutely no one bothered with extracurricular activities. When they were teenagers homework, studying and afterschool jobs were up to them. No teenager's mother would be hounding them about their schoolwork or calling the teacher.
Housework/cooking was a woman's burden whether she had children or not.[/quote]

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