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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My career field disappeared with the Great Recession and we had very young kids. I became a SAHM. It's worked well for our family. The kids are thriving, my spouse makes good money and is glad I'm at home to handle the home front. [b]When our kids were sick at school, and needed to be picked up, I could be there in 15 minutes.[/b] I once apologized for taking 20 minutes and the school nurse said don't worry, you're doing just fine. She had sick kids who sat there all day until the bell rang, and then went to after care...

I always remember that moment. My kids had it pretty good. I have no regrets looking back. Life has been good. Nobody can have everything, all the time, all at once. We all make choices, and have to live with them.[/quote]

In our house, either my husband or I would be there in 10 minutes to pick up our kids.[/quote]

That’s nice. Not all of us are married to someone with that type of availability. [/quote]

DP.  
These threads are always full of people who generally seem to have no responsibility to be anywhere and not a lot of work to do, and yet they make $200.  
Surprise.  Most of them work for the federal government.

People who do actual work at real jobs where they have responsibilities and people depending on them know that you can’t always just up and leave to get your kid at school within 10 minutes.

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My husband and I both make over $200k and neither of us works for the federal government. We have "real" jobs with responsibilities and we have people depending on them, but when the school nurse calls and says one of our kids is throwing up, [b]one of us will leave[/b] to get our kid. When we both commuted almost an hour in opposite directions from our kids' school we had a nanny who could do so. When one our children broke her arm on the playground and my husband was out of the country for work, I ended the call I was on and drove to the hospital. Because while our jobs are "real" and people depend on us, my kids come before anything else. I get that there are people who don't have that luxury and do not have any leave and would be fired from their job if they were to leave and that is awful. But I don't believe you are one of those people. You're just someone who thinks they are far more important than they are.[/quote]

That's because you and your husband are a team. This thread was started by someone who assumes that only women have to take care of children. I don't know a single woman who sees herself as an equal who also puts her career on the back burner, unless there were other circumstances.[/quote]

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