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Not the sarcastic PP -- there is no good reason for the sarcasm.  Some people on DCUM are just like that.  If you say anything's hard, they'll belittle it because it's not as hard as something else, or it's your own fault, or whatever.   You're right, it is hard.  It's all hard.  [b]And the notion that we were supposed to know this at 20 and therefore plan careers that would allow us to be part-time or mostly-home mothers (and know that we would want that) is ludicrous.[/b]   At 20, for all I knew, I'd never find someone worth marrying.  The truth is we have a bad economy, falling real wages, and therefore you can't get by on one income anymore, unless it's one really unusual income.  And even then, that will likely mean your kids won't know that parent.  
good luck.[/quote]

Note also that women are supposed to plan careers that will allow them to be part-time, or mostly-home, or in-any-case-have-a-flexible-job mothers, while there is no comparable expectation for men. The continuing expectation that child care is the mother's responsibility is bad for women, bad for men, and bad for children.

(For what it's worth, my family gets by on one income, which is below the median for jurisdiction we live in. So it's not impossible (if you have good health insurance). It is probably impossible, though, to get by on one income and do all (or most) of the things you might want to do if you had two incomes!)[/quote]

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