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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you really want to be away from your children for 40-50 hours per week and do the "commute, drop off, pickup, quick make dinner, bed bath rush in a couple hours before bedtime" scramble for 401 k funding?

I wouldn't be able to make it through the day knowing I was spending that time away from my kids for so little.

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You don't know what other benefits she receives from working, and I don't mean healthcare.  I mean her own growth, development, stimulation etc.  Who are you to judge based only on her salary and call that "so little"?

If you love being a SAHM, enjoy away, but many of us feel we are better role models and happier people as working moms.  This idea of sitting home with your kids all day is a recent one.  Back in the day, moms were not staying home with their kids playing games to develop their vocabulary.  The kids were all playing together while mom did laundry and worked hard in the house/on the farm/whatever for the survival of the family.  They just weren't doing it in an office.  Somehow the human race survived.  It takes a village, remember?  The idea of being a SAHM is a recent luxury.[/quote]

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