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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem I have is when you say "why is it such a bad sacrifice for a woman who wants children to not work?" Why should it be a sacrifice at all, and why should it be a sacrifice for women only? Yes, it is such a bad sacrifice! [/quote]

I didn't say not work. The sacrifice I refer to is the sacrifice of a highly intensive career.

Why is the woman the only one who has to make this sacrifice? [b]Because women don't typically want to be married to men who take on a traditionally feminine role[/b]. If you do, that's great. Problem solved for you.

Most top executives and surgeons have stay at home spouses if they have children.

And when they don't? Well, did you happen to read the Atlantic cover story about the Silicon Valley suicides? Kids don't do so hot when both of their parents are absent most of the time at work.

I'm sorry that life involves sacrifices, constraints, and forced choices. I don't delight in that reality.

A woman can always choose to have no children or only one child. [/quote]

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