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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]

Well, all of these arguments are pretty fascinating. I think an argument could be made that America in general starting with the Industrial revolution leading up to the mid 1950's made the kind of progress it made because of the sacrifice of women. Men were freed up with the combination of technology and more leisure time to create great things with the support of family money Rockefeller, Edison, Chase, Darwin, Pasteur, etc.,  these men were born into wealth they could attract a $$ to give birth to kids. (of course back then the offspring--Churchill, Roosevelts, Vanderbilts, were raised by a governess AND a nanny and only saw mummy and daddy briefly.) Jobs was a typical rogue really; he spent his early creative years building a network and nerd cred. Yes, he was fired but his close circle of nerd friends never left him because of the $$. He was able to attract a good wife with his nerd cred and $$. He didn't have to raise children in the conventional sense because he resources were more aptly spent elsewhere. He paid lip service to spending time with his kids but if anyone of them really writes a meaningful truthful book, we shall see what the impact of this sort of "genius" has on childrearing. I'm guessing it probably "sucked " to have this sort of parent. [b]$$ and genius certainly does not make you a good parent.[/b][/quote]

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