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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not an attorney.

Anything healthcare. [/quote]

FFS don’t encourage your DDs to go into pink collar jobs for some mythical SAH dream. Let them do a career that earns real money and maybe interest them.

The option to SAH will depend on a lot of factors but largely if her husband is on board, and earns enough money to drop her income completely. Being able to re-enter is nice but meaningless — while she is home, if her DH earns enough she can just go back to school for year and retrain for a her former or a new career.   SAH for 6 years vs 6 + 1 year grad courses is hardly that different as long as her husband can and is willing to be breadwinner.

PP was right, you as future grandma should try to maximize your income to help them have that option by giving them cash to get started, down payments, and no student debt. That’s way for valuable than encouraging them to hobble their careers out the gate for some mythical husband and kids. [/quote]

I will not actively encourage this for my DD but as a mom in a field that is hard to leave and reenter, I personally regret not considering it more. A career where I am competing with men and am tied to a physical office for 40+ hours a week has made my life as a mom to little kids, one with special needs, a lot harder than it could have been as nurse or even a pediatrician who might have the ability to work a couple of days a week instead of 5. It sucks that this is a consideration but I want my DD to make her choices about the world based on how it actually is not how it should be. [/quote]

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