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Earning the money that puts food on my kid's table, and a roof over my head is just as much part of being a parent as building legos with my kid.  [/quote]

It’s not though.  And I’m saying this as a WOHM.  I did SAH when my kid was 0-3, and there is a lot more parenting going on.  A lot.  As WOHMs we outsource an important part of parenting.  It serves a purpose as kids get older bc they need socialization and structure but no one is ever going to convince me that going to an office and earning money is just as much a part of parenting.  By those standards, why don’t you just send a check to your DH weekly?  I choose to work but I’m self aware enough to know that someone else is doing the lion’s share of parenting from 9-6 daily.  [/quote]

I work, and I sort of agree and sort of disagree. I'm a single mom though, so putting food on my kids table has always been my responsibility (despite getting child support - its not enough to cover all the things) and IS part of parenting. It's really important that my kid eat every day and have a roof over his head, and that's my job as a single mom. No one else is doing it for me.

That said, THANK GOD someone else is with my kid all day. I'm not good at the endless days of crying kid BS. I do decently enough at the evenings, but ugh being a SAHM would be horrible for me. I'm glad some people enjoy it, but I'm awful at it.[/quote]

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