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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I just wanted to chime in with everyone else who has read this thread and wants to march to your sister in law's house as an angry mob.

The way she is treating you is totally disrespectful. I cannot imagine the amount of work you must be doing on a daily basis with all of those little ones!

I just wanted to say that we grew up pretty poor-- living from paycheck to paycheck in a three-room house-- and yet when my mom had to ask one of my aunts to babysit us (giving THEM a grand total of five kids to care for), she always wrote them a check. (We were in home daycare, but on occasion couldn't go for one reason or another.) My mom appreciated that she wouldn't be able to go to work and make money if it weren't for the people caring for her kids, and so she paid them-- even, she told me as an adult, when she had to pay them exactly what she'd made for her day of work. Now, if you lived in a culture where there was a joint family and so your SIL and BIL's contributions were benefiting you (and MIL!) in some other way, she could do the whole "it takes a village" thing, but if you are each a separate household economy, this is not "it takes a village." This is "she gets to work and earn money to support her own family, and the village ain't gettin' a cent."[/quote]

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