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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok but maternity leave / newborn phase is just a shitshow for most people lol so I am not sure you can extrapolate that to SAH vs WOH in general.

Again I don’t doubt that staying at home with young children is more emotionally mentally and physically taxing (not to mention monotonous) than a normal 40 hour per week job where work  is left at the office, but I think for a lot of posters on DCUM, unless they have outsourced everything and/or have very involved family nearby, the average household where both parents work fairly demanding jobs makes WOH a more challenging struggle. Especially when kids are sick and/or these random cold delays, having to scramble for last minute care and rearrange schedules/meetings makes life infinitely more stressful, whereas if one parent SAH this would be a non issue. We have also been asked to travel on occasion on overlapping days - I have had to say no once or twice and we have flown in family to cover on two other occasions which is totally not sustainable but just trying to survive and advance at this point.

And then when your children are school age, there’s no way that it’s not easier staying at home.
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