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[quote=Anonymous]To the PP who is citing caring for aging parents: I am totally sympathetic to your point - people take time off for plenty of reasons other than SAHM. Fwiw, half the people in my office are currently or have been recently helping to care for sick / aging parents. Including myself. My work place has been fantastic about it.

But most of us can't or don't take 13 years off to do it. And if we did, our career opportunities would probably suffer. It's hard to break back into any field after a long absence, irrespective of the cause.

OP, I watched a friend go through this, although she wasn't really a SAHM - just an adventure seeker who spent a number of years travelling, starting businesses, working odd jobs, along with her husband and child. When she came back to DC to return to her "original" field at least a decade had passed. She had stuff on her resume but it was incoherent and a lot of it was way dated (pro tip: the fed internship you had in the early 90s isn't all that persuasive today!!) It took her 2 years to find a job that was anywhere near her interests. And it wasn't a great one; it paid what my college grad assistant makes (and I don't work at a well-paid organization.) But a year in that job, she got another offer, for more than twice the pay and a lot of responsibility. She'll never fully get back to where she could have been without the decade break -- but I think she was very happy to have those experiences and is okay with having a less than perfect job in her 40s (as most of us do!)[/quote]

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