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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father is no Steve Jobs, but he had an executive job with some travel and he wasn't around as much as my mom when we were young.  My mom was a SAHM and raised us.  That was a pretty standard division of labor back in the 70's, and in some families (not mine) it's still the norm.

I think for me, if I had vision, ambition and potential like Steve Jobs, I'd either not have kids or I'd find a less ambitious spouse to pull more weight at home.  I don't happen to have his drive/vision, so I'm cool with a lesser role at work and pulling more of the weight at home.

Having kids is an important job, but someone has to be out there doing things that improve the world and our lives.  I don't think those two should be mutually exclusive things.  (and frankly, if innovative geniuses don't have kids, what happens to the gene pool?)[/quote]

I agree with this. First of all this discussion is amusing in that 99.9% of people aren't going to face this. Steve Jobs (obviously working with others, but he was the leader) changed the way we communicated and changed the way we did our jobs. There are a lot of smart people out there, even geniuses, and a lot of leaders out there, but not many of this caliber. So it's not something that most working parents have to struggle with.

But as someone who was also raised by a SAHM who was happy to let my executive dad who traveled a lot get to the top of his career and have a high achieving career (and like the PP not saying he was Steve Jobs, just that he had a high level successful career) I think if you are going to devote that kind of time and energy to a career you need to have a spouse who maybe doesn't have the same goals if you want kids.

It is certainly possible and quite common in my circle to have both parents have a somewhat successful and fulfilling career without having the kind of high achieving careers Steve Jobs or even my dad had, and raise kids with some balance. A lot of us don't have to struggle with this.[/quote]

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