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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's that they were young and naive when they said those things. They didn't understand how tiring and complicated it is when you have kids and both parents have real careers. They didn't understand anything at all about the parenting grind. They're more tired now than they were in their twenties. And some of them were saying those things and truly aspired to do it, but simply do not have the executive functioning ability. [/quote]

Yeah. I think my husband and I both thought of our moms as having worked, and that's not exactly wrong, but they sure weren't working full time when their kids were young. And my career is a more demanding. And parenting is more demanding, too. [/quote]

Yeah.  A lot of boomers and the generation before that (the greatest generation?) worked part time or very part time for 15 years or so while they were raising their kids, then went back to work later on.  
I think there was something to be said for just recognizing that women were going to spend part of their early career raising children.  I wish that was something you could still do without feeling like you were going to be punished or like you could never return to a career.  [/quote]

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