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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is HILARIOUS! Some of you women are just so mean, bitter and judgmental. Look, there's no perfect solution to the WOH/SAH debate. As someone here said a few posts back, "pick your posion." Every choice has a price. Choose as best you can, realizing other women will make different choices than you and that's okay.

Got it? Good. End of discussion.[/quote]

No, I do not agree. What the "poison" of working full time if you've never had any desire to SAH or work PT?[/quote]

Well. There's the whole "poison" of higher risks for heart disease and early death from high stress high demand careers. There's the lack of emotional support that you're available to give to your spouse and children. In short, there are all the things that the 1950's Dads did to their wives and children in terms of lack of quality face time, except now both parents are doing it. There equal and opposite downsides to SAH--but you asked about the downsides of working full-time. I was raised by a full-time 'master of the universe' working Mom AND Dad. And it really sucked.[/quote]

I was raised by a hard working mom and I really really admired her and got some great values - self sufficiency, resilience, hard work, importance of giving back to society, perseverance etc.[/quote]

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