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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you didn't show up to work for most of the day, you wouldn't call yourself a full time employee.  If you aren't in the same place as your baby/toddler from, say, 8am-6pm, it is hard to call yourself a ft parent.  You must, by the nature of it, delegate the parenting during those hours to someone else.  The inflexible workplace make it so.  [/quote]

Mother is a noun that describes a relationship.  We are all FT mothers.

You are insecure, it seems.[/quote]

[b]Parenting is a verb, [/b]and an action verb, in fact.

Parenting is not a feeling you have while you're sitting at a desk 50 hours a week. That's why someone else has to do the actual work if you don't do it.

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Only in the last twenty years or so.  In any case, see:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parent

Where used as a verb it means ": to be or act as the parent of :" - not a "feeling" as you say.  A fact of being or acting.  Wherever a parent is, then, s/he is parenting (if you think using it as a verb is acceptable) or is a parent (indisputable as a noun).

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