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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you like your job and would want to go back, do not quit.

- A SAHM. [/quote]

I quit to be a stay at home mom 16 years ago. Even if I wanted to go back, I could never go back to my career. I work in a completely different field now, put my salary is very low and it’s not intellectually stimulating.

On the absolutely positive side, I would do it again. I was lucky to be present for my kids (and husband), their school events before and after school and my life is not stressful. I have the perfect work life balance.[/quote]

You have the perfect “life balance” for you - not work life balance - you sacrificed your career. And it sounds like the sacrifice worked for you. It doesn’t for everyone and many people want more from life - like a tangible contribution other than reproduction.  Men are expected to reproduce and make a contribution; women are second fiddle and only good for their uterus.[/quote]

I can only speak for myself but being the person to raise my kids full time would be a much more meaningful use of time and “contribution” than the work I do as a cog in the wheel for the fortune 100 company I work at. Most of us aren’t working at “meaningful” jobs and even the those of us who are usually aren’t paid well enough to offset the cost of quality childcare. [/quote]

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