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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up around mostly single moms. They all worked FT and some had second jobs. It's just what they did. My mom worked FT and had around an hour commute. She did this for 40ish or so years. Everyone did.

I think parents these days are so tired because their kids have way too many activities. Stop signing your kids up for all of that. You're bringing this on yourself.[/quote]

It’s an arms race. If you isn’t doing soccer travel at age 6, they won’t make high school or best club teams and won’t be recruited to best colleges etc, and their third tier college prospects will mean underemployment forever.

Yes single mothers worked, but a huge percentage of them lived with their own parents or roped in other family to help — they generally were flexible enough as a single adult household to move closer to family.

Or just left the kids to fend for themselves and lived on squalor. How exactly were they getting kids to school, working and commuting, making dinner, doing all chores etc? Something had to give. [/quote]

That’s BS. My DS was raised by me, single mom. He played soccer for a few years and then did one EC in HS that met once a month. He graduated from college a few weeks ago and has a job starting in June. He didn’t fend for himself, he didn’t live in squalor. He has his own car, a Roth IRA from savings from summer jobs. He took the bus to/from school, had daily and weekly chores. He watched YouTube videos to learn how to cook when I wasn’t home. He made dinner on the nights I worked late. [/quote]

I would be curious how your days and weeks went?  When he was young how did he get to and from school; how did he get to soccer?  Sure, a 13 year old can use the stove or oven to make dinner— but what about the decade before that??  And if he needed help with anything from cooking to homework how did it work? You are describing the phase when he was an almost teenager and independent enough to cook and transport himself.  And with one kid that does settle down in just a decade rather than spamming 2 when you have multiple. But there still was 10 years where I am curious how you made it work?[/quote]

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