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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m just a few years younger than you are.  When my kids were little, my husband’s work more or less expected that I would handle everything at home, and he would be available at work.  (It didn’t matter that I also worked for the same hospital and knew is boss and coworkers.)

My sister is 35, and things are so different.  Her husband does close to half, and that’s what’s expected.  He took paternity leave when the kids were born, takes time off when they are sick half the time, goes to the doctor with them half the time, etc.

As a working woman, I think this is good.

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I'm 45 with the same set up as your sister. My husband does more doctor and dentist appointments than I do, he does half the work around the house, and he takes them to their sports half the time. He also gets them ready for school and puts them to bed half the time. Same with cooking. We alternate days on this stuff so I know he actually is doing half, it's not something I'm trying to convince myself of. He also took the first four weeks off, then another four after I went back to work after 16 weeks. He dealt with kids in the morning because my commute was worse so I left before they got up and I got home earlier in the afternoons so we each had them alone for the same amount of time M-F and neither of us has ever worked weekends. Now they're older and take the bus to and from school and we both work from home so things are much easier, but he has always been 50% responsible for everything related to the family. [/quote]

It sounds like you were older when you had your kids and rather than being the parent of older teens, you are more in the millennial group that the OP is complaining about.  You and your husband both take time off, won’t work weekends ever, come in late after dropping kids off, leave early for daycare pickup and to make dinner, etc.

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