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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder what nature intended for babies? Be with their loving parents or be with indifferent caretakers and see parents only for a couple of waking hours? [/quote]

I don't know what nature intended but I do know that I was not interested in letting anybody else except my husband and I care for our children when they were infants and toddlers except for occasionally.  These days parents are conditioned to resist those urges though.  I do not think it's a good thing.[/quote]

+1 that mothers are conditioned to resist those urges now.[/quote]

And it’s even worse in countries with more equality.  I have friends in Sweden and they are pretty much forced by society to send their kids to a state run daycare to return to work.  They praise the long maternity leave but then when it’s over put their child in institutionalized childcare.  They also have their husbands taking long parental leaves but the men are still not as good of a caregiver as the mom.  It seems like they are trying as hard as they can to fight the biological urge women have to care for their own children.  My female friends there are all very unhappy but can’t figure out why.  I know why. [/quote]

I agree and I've actually said for a long time now that these long paternity leaves are actually counter productive. Its just costing companies more money but ultimately not helping the situation. [/quote]

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