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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Parents don't raise their own kids anymore[/b]. So they want to spend more time with them when they are around.[/quote]

I assume you refer to a decrease in the number of SAHMs?
I grew up in a lower middle class area.  Out of my graduating class from high school, I can count on one hand the number of kids who had a SAHP for any significant amount of time.  As children, we were all in daycare, after school care, or being watched by a babysitter or grandparent.  Both parents worked to make ends meet.  This isn't some new thing.[/quote]

Agree[/quote]

Same here.  My mom stayed at home until my younger sibling started kindergarten, and then she went back to work.  Except for some of the families with more than three kids, everyone's mother worked, at least part time.  Most of the mothers in my neighborhood worked, too.  There wasn't some golden age when all mothers stayed at home -- that was always a class-based thing.  [/quote]

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