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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]

I worked basically full time in college (35 hours a week) and went to a private liberal arts college. I finished in 3.5 years. I would not recommend it, but it can be done. I did not have a choice. It was in the 1990s. My loan debt was astronomical. 70k in late 1990s…equivalent to nearly 200k in debt now. [/quote]

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