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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you (OP or others) aren't home for dinner every night, how many hours/minutes do you see your kids every day?

I SAH, but DH eats breakfast with us in the morning, and is home for dinner every night.  If he didn't get those two+ hours with the kids at night, he wouldn't even know them.... and I can't imagine that he'd feel all the work was worth it if he's MIA every night.  That's how we live... but compared to some, we're practically impoverished at about $190K gross.  Of course, we don't really feel like we live in poverty b/c our house and cars are paid off and we have $0 credit card or other debt.

I think it IS about choices... we choose not to be on a fast track b/c we like to have down time and be involved with our kids.  BTW, I'm the lawyer in the family (the one who SAH -- so, yes, you can take the lower paying lawyer job if you want to... but that's a choice.)[/quote]

this is not fair.  our HHI is 150 and we both work.  our house and cars are also paid off and we have no debt (inheritance).  but that is NOT the case for most.  it's really ignorant to come on here bragging about choices and priorities when you have a paid-off house, no loans, etc.  it's easy for me to say everyone should work the low-ish paying jobs we chose in exchange for flexibility - we don't have a mortgage or student loan debt!  be considerate of others.[/quote]

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