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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My concern has never been the quality and quantity of time I spend with my kids.  My concern is the quality and quantity of time they spend with others. Am I going to warehouse my children 10 hours a day so that they can spend 2 hours in a luxurious home with me?  Am I going to drop them off to a middle class daycare in a home where I would not be comfortable for 10 minutes?

It's such a small amount of time to sacrifice to raise your children to school age.  What good is your career satisfaction if your kid is being warehoused by people who do not love them during the most formative years of their lives?  I didn't love being a SAHM, but I loved my children and I made that sacrifice for them.  Sometimes you have to do things that aren't your very first choice in the world, but you do them because they're right.[/quote]

I also feel bad for the kids who are "warehoused." Fortunately for me and all of the other working parents I know, our kids were not "warehoused." They were cared for by competent caregivers: nannies, grandparents, high-quality day care centers, etc.

My kids are out of day care now and they are developmentally the same as the kids who had SAHP. You wouldn't be able to tell that they were in day care in their early years.[/quote]

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