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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reality is that raising children is more than a full-time job.
If mom or dad wants a career, the family needs to hire someone who will prioritize the children since the parents won't.
I've said this before - there are commitments one makes in life. [b]The commitment to 4 years of college comes with assumptions that you aren't going to be working full-time, right?
The commitment to a job comes with assumptions that you aren't working another 2 or 3 jobs on the sides too, right?[/b]
How is it that people think that a commitment to parenting allows you to have an uninterrupted career too? It is an intensive 10 years which starts to taper off gradually, then quickly in the next 10 years.[/quote]
Neither of these are accurate. You clearly don't live in the real world. Many many people work FT during college and many many people work multiple jobs. [/quote]

And how healthy and sustainable is that?[/quote]

When you don’t have a choice, you make it sustainable. I leave the house every day at 6:30 with my kids. I drop them off at the before school program at school and book it to my own school by 7:30. I leave school at 5:30 (I work at my after school’s after care program) and pray that I can make it to their school by 6:00. We get home around 6:45 or so. Dinner, walk/bike ride, baths, reading, bed.

Do I want to do this? No. I wish I didn’t need the money from working the second job but I do so I make this sustainable. [/quote]

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