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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]people who don't plan to have one parent home as the primary caregiver until their child/ren are at least school age should not be parents, this includes single by choice parents. [/quote]

Agree with this 100%.  I loved my job before I had my first child but knew having a baby meant leaving the workforce for many years. My kids are grown now (high school and beyond) and I am loving being back in the workforce.  We didn't even consider children until we were as sure as we could be that one of us could be at home at least until they started school.

I think a lot of the problems we are seeing with kids and young adults today are directly related to 10+ hours in daycare away from their parent during those critical early years.[/quote]

Honest question. Do you you truly think there are [i]more[/i] problems now with kids and young adults than there were (say) 30 years ago or 60 years ago?

In some ways my view is that if that's going to be our criteria, we'd be better of sending every single kid to daycare because the kids of the 1950s stay-at-home moms sure didn't seem to turn out well as a group compared to the more recent generation that spent more time in daycare on average. As a group I think millenials are a kinder, more compassionate, less violent group than their predecessors. I am not a millenial but I am around a lot of them and I think they're a lot less self-centered than the Baby Boomers (who statistically had a lot more SAHMs). I think this shows up in crime and violence statistics as well.  [/quote]

I Disagree. With the millennial generation there is a large resistance to "growing up". Even twenty years ago you wouldn't have animated movies and tv shows aimed at people in their twenties or thirty year olds playing video games.

There has been a rapid increase in narcissim as well as the millennials age (it was in the Atlantic) and I see this narcissism in generation x as well (see the mommy wars thread)[/quote]

The baby boomers were far more violent at the same age. I'll take a little video game obsession over violence.[/quote]

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