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You said if a woman who works is not her child's primary caretaker.  That is incorrect.  Stop with the moving goalposts.[/quote]

Is the attorney who doesn't show up to court the primary litigator in your case??? You can't have your cake and eat it, too. And that's the point. There is a reason you hire a nanny or pay for childcare while you go to work. That person would be your child's PRIMARY caretaker--meaning that this person cares for the needs of your child on a full-time basis. Much in the same way that you are paid by your employer for YOUR full-time role doing whatever it is that you do while you are not simultaneously caring for your child. It is a fact. That you are defensive about it is neither here nor there, but it is you who is trying to have both the career AND be defined as your child's primary caretaker. You are not if you are not there.[/quote]

Your analogies are not appropriate.  [b]A full-time job is 40 hours a week, not 168 hours a week.[/b] I am a parent and primary caregiver 24/7, whether I am at work or home and whether my child is with me or at school.   A nanny or daycare provider is never a primary caretaker, unless you have one of those old-timey, rich person situations where the nanny lives with the family and truly does ALL of the child care 24/7.  That is highly uncommon.  [/quote]

Kind of why I used the attorney example. 
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