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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My dh and I are nurses and we work all kids of crazy shifts. Our "village" is other nurses and staff who also do this. We welcome watching each others kids and they watch ours when overtime is suddenly demanded or storms keep us for double shifts, etc. We think nothing of our colleagues kids being dropped at our house with a change of clothes. I don't get why other professions/neighbors/whatever don't jump in to form 'pools" to help each other out. [/quote] Huh? Neighbors do help each other out, as many on this thread have described. Maybe other shift workers do. Probably many military families do. But many of us work in "typical" enough professions that we're not drawn together in this way, i.e., we don't often need childcare for the situations you describe, because they almost never happen to us. That's why.[/quote]
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