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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The question you all should focus on is:

If my career is my priority,
 WHO will care for the child?

Not, "I'll settle for whoever shows up."[/quote]

Maybe the question you should focus on is:

If I don't work
WHO will provide food and shelter, health insurance and stability for the child?

Not, "I'll settle for whatever cardboard box I can find and hope no one needs a doctor."[/quote]
Single parenting is a whole different thing. It takes a village.[/quote]

But that distinction shouldn't matter for purposes of this thread. The original article was about whether your kids will turn out better if you stay home or work. It's not about whether working is an economic necessity or not. So all the hostile comments aimed at WOHMs still count if the mom is single. It's disingenuous for the stay at home harpies who like to tell us our kids will be messed up to say, "Oh it's different if you're single or if you have to work." No, it's not. The point is whether or not your kids will be messed up by day care, regardless of the reason they are there. [/quote]
Your kid doesn't need to be a genius to figure out:

1. I got a parade of sitters because there was no other option

2. A got what I got because mommy and daddy had more interesting things to do at the office
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You forgot:

3. I got what I got and my parents both had interesting, productive careers and I am modeling my family after the way I raised, which was actually great. They were both good role models as parents, citizens, and upwardly mobile business people. Every family makes choices and trade-offs and the ones they made were the right ones and benefitted me and my siblings enormously. As an adult, I am grateful. [/quote]
How old are your kids now, and how many primary caregiver have they had so far?[/quote]

Elementary and middle school. They have two parents who live with them who are their primary caregivers. They were each in a family day care until age 2, in preschool for age 3 and 4, and in public school since kindergarten. [/quote]
If they had only one primary caregiver for their first two years of life, count your blessings. Few children are so fortunate![/quote]

I guess. I myself have only the vaguest memories of being 3, and certainly no memories from when I was 2 or younger. For all I know, my parents had the dog watch me. [/quote]
If you study early childhood development, you learn how enormously your early environment impacts your entire life, even though most of us don't consciously remember it.[/quote]

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