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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Parents don't raise their own kids anymore[/b]. So they want to spend more time with them when they are around.[/quote] I assume you refer to a decrease in the number of SAHMs? I grew up in a lower middle class area. Out of my graduating class from high school, I can count on one hand the number of kids who had a SAHP for any significant amount of time. As children, we were all in daycare, after school care, or being watched by a babysitter or grandparent. Both parents worked to make ends meet. This isn't some new thing.[/quote] People like to wax poetic about this idyllic era when all the moms were at home baking cookies for their kids, but only the most affluent families in any decade you look at had a SAHM. Most women worked in some way including raising someone else's kid even if that woman didn't work. [/quote]
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