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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think we all know, deep in our guts, that a certain level of quantity matters. [/quote]

I know a couple of kids who are now in their 20s that spent a significant part of their childhoods with nannies because their parents had high profile careers and traveled often. A great nanny or caretaker is fine. [b]I think you just need to make yourself feel better[/b]; that you mean something to your child. [/quote]

Yes, just as people [b]who leave their children with others to raise them [/b]need to make themselves feel better and want to feel that they mean something to their child despite hours spent away from them. [/quote]

Okay, I think the SAHMs are losing this battle of the Mommy Wars, because you're not just convincing yourself that your child is better off; you have to convince yourself that other children are worse off. Just as I think the breastfeeding hardliners lose their battle, for the same reason.

Using childcare doesn't mean others are raising your child, twit. It takes a village, and that's the way it's always been.

Can everyone just smugly go back to [i]silently[/i] reassuring themselves that their choices are the only right ones?[/quote]

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