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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not a SAHM but I can't understand why you would want to have kids and NOT be with them or have your partner be with them as much as possible?  I grew up with a SAHM and coming home from school to see her was such an amazing, internal, substantive part of my life.  I just can't fathom how you could have that option and reject it.  [/quote]

There's a happy medium. I love being with my kids, but they need outside influences as well. Teaching them to exist in a bubble helps no one. Love comes from different sources.[/quote]

Well of course. I wasn't homeschooled, and I did lots of activities.  But knowing my mom was home and that I could spend those extra hours every day around her meant so much to me.  i look back now and am so grateful. [/quote]

I think if most people, men or women, could come home at 3pm and be with their kids they would, once kids are school aged. For many women and families, that isn't a possibility and staying at home all day, without intellectual stimulation or financial contribution, doesn't make it worth it.

My mom was home after school and I loved it. I didn't realize until much later how lonely and un-intellectually stimulated she was during those years.[/quote]

Do you know that she was lonely and lacking intellectual stimulation? I stay at home and would hate for anyone to think that about me. They would be wrong. I'm neither. Now that I'm not working I have a lot more time for friends and intellectual pursuits. [/quote
Absolutely. She and I had many honest conversations about it. When we went to college she started taking classes etc - didn't feel she had the bandwidth before then.[/quote]

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