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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You have to prioritize. This is nothing new. Take a different job, or career, or don't have kids, or have only one, live near family.... The possibilities are endless so choose one and make it work.[/quote]

Exactly. So they need to stop telling women we can have it all. You just can't. Men can have it all. [/quote]

No, you only think men can because of the idea that it's ok for men to be less involved in their family life if they make a big salary.  DH has turned down jobs that would increase our HHI by 75K because it would mean he would work long hours and it wasn't worth it to him.  It's a myth that all men can have it all (I say all men because there are some who care more about money than family )[/quote]

Agree with this. DH is very unhappy that his work gets him home at 7:30pm, which means he gets about 20 minutes with the kids (bedtime stories, basically), PLUS he is on the outs at work for not working longer into the evening like most people (laywer) even though he works from home at night.

Just goes to show it's not a WOMEN problem, it's a PARENT problem. Parents need to stop being punished for having children (without which our economy will obviously not function, considering the importance of birth rate and economic growth/stability) by having sensible leave policies established and by the whole of the U.S. examining how rational it is to expect people to work 12-hour days (during which most employees probably accomplish little more than they would during an 8-hr day) or billable hours (a vestigial and terrible way to pay attorneys, if you ask me).[/quote]

It's only people who are poverty level or making hundreds of thousands of dollars who consistently work 12 hour days.[/quote]

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