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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know what this is ab,out either, OP.  Sure there are some people who truly SAH 100% of the time.  And there are some people who are WOH 60+ hours/wk + travel.  But most people do something in between and are more similar than they are different.

[b]SAHM's use an average of 15-20 hours/wk of childcare, [/b]whether it's preschool, grandparents, or a hired babysitter.  
WOHM's use an average of 35 hours/wk of childcare.  
All moms of young children spend an average of 100 hours/wk working in and out of the home.

Most of us are spending nearly all of our time doing the same thing.  The WOHM vs SAHM debate is mostly fabricated.   [/quote]
This is hilariously out of touch. [/quote]

+1 what? where are you getting this "average" number of 15-20 hrs? I SAH and I have a 4 yo and 1 yo. At the MAX, when my daughter was in preschool last year, she was gone for 12 hrs/wk.... but I had a baby at home, so not sure what that counts as. If she'd gone to preschool this year, it would've been between 9 and 16 hrs a wk, but again, my baby would've been at home with me.
And no, staying home with children and being at work are not the same thing. Do you think being a daycare worker and working in an office are the same thing?[/quote]

Pp here.  It’s from a survey done several years ago.  I have a hard copy of it filed somewhere, but can’t find it right now. 
And it’s an average.  
For every mom who has their children 100% of the time, there is one who trades off childcare with a neighbor or has kids who go to visit grandparents every weekend.
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Visiting family on the weekends isn’t childcare. That’s what families do. Your former example sounds more like a reciprocal play date.[/quote]

Ok.  If you don’t think that friends, family members, or preschool can provide childcare, then you aren’t going to care for this survey.  [/quote]

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