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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can tell you my Mom participated in child sharing/caring with other Moms and these arrangements were commonplace in the 1960's.

Five Moms. Each Mom takes a day.  You tell your employer you can work 4 days a week.  The kids get dropped off at the Mom of the day.

Daycare as a business was not such a thing in the 1960s. You had to be creative to get your childcare.

This arrangement was pretty common in Bowie in the 1960s and allowed Moms to work.[/quote]

Again, why does the responsibility fall on the moms? In this day, it should be dads as well. [/quote]

Lol. Men are very capable of caring for a child, but at least for my husband, multitasking is hard enough when children aren’t involved. Involve multiple children and disaster may ensue. [/quote]

Women have been socialized to believe it's their responsibility to care for children, and men have been socialized to believe it's not their responsibility.  How many of us have husbands who self-congratulate themselves for being such involved fathers but took less than half of the parental leave they were entitled to?  [/quote]

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