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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a SAHM because my salary didn’t cover high-quality childcare for two kids, even though I have a masters in my field. Good for those moms who can afford it.[/quote]

+1, I would have lost money when I worked with one child given my income in a helping field.  I had a masters and 15 years experience.  It made no sense to put my child in day care when it cost me money and I would have to work long hours.[/quote]

+2, After daycare, I would have been bringing home only a few thousand dollars a year. So I left my job and did freelance work on the side, and came out pretty much the same financially. I decided that if I was going to be working just to pay for someone to spend most of my child's waking hours with them, the person I paid might as well be me.

My ideal set-up would be to work about 20 hours a week while someone else took care of my child, and then spend the rest of my time at home with my child. But that is a difficult arrangement to find. I actually think it's what a lot of parents would like, fathers included. The problem with our current system is that we either have to work all day or parent all day, and neither is a particularly good balance.

I recently heard a woman on a podcast talk about how she and her husband, who both work in environmental science, shared a job when their children were small. They literally shared a desk and the same work responsibilities. One would work while the other took care of the kids, and then they'd switch. It worked for their employer who wanted to hire both of them but did not have enough funding. It sounded like a kind of brilliant solution, provided you could make the finances work.[/quote]

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