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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you workaholic parents are pathetic. Spending 1-2hrs max a day with your kids.  Why bother having kids if you want to work 10-12hrs a day and are only home to put your kids to bed.  What kind of life is that for them or you?  [/quote]

Excuse you?  F you!  I work insane hours and hired a nanny.  My life does not revolve around my kids.  They get to do everything that other kids get to do.  I tried being a stay at home mom and it lasted for 10 months.  Not my thing.  My kids are wonderful and think it's cool to have a powerful and accomplished mom.[/quote]

This is insane. PP, it's the LEAN-IN people like you who are ruining it for all the rest of us who would like access to "powerful and accomplished" positions but settle for less just to see our kids at home. Powerful and Accomplished may have seemed god in the 1970s, when women had no power. In this day and age, the ethical thing to do is to insist on work-life balance. If you are in a positon of power, then YOU should make it happen.

This is not a woman's issue. American workers at all levels have a right to raise their families. Since when education and a good job should be reserved for the single or family-ignoring professionals? Why should "POWER", as YOU call it, rest only with those who make the choice to completely delegate the parenting to others?

You and OP's DH are the very reason why there is a gender pay gap. PP, work is not about power. It's about providing for life. If you did decide to delegate your life to others, why would that make you more of a leader than other, equally accomplished moms and dads? I can read in your answer the frustration you feel when you're judged by this decision. All I'm saying is -- it does NOT have to be this way. If people in leadership position -- men and women -- learned how to set these basic boundaries, it would make for a better world all around. Think about the  Nash principle before you elbow out family folks out of a job![/quote]

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