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Originally posted by TexLex
Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Should dad stay home too, or just mom? BTW, thanks for setting us back 50 years there. And at what point can mom go back to work? Never? After 5-10 years when her experience and degree are now rendered practically worthless (which brings us back to never)? And when dad can't make the rent on his own - like the overwhelming majority of the working families out there, what's your solution to that? Sell the kid on Ebay to give it a chance at a better life? Or do you think only moms who marry guys with good jobs should be the only ones who get to have kids? Maybe well-off people should be the only ones who get to breed - that would solve a lot of the world's problems, eh? Except many of us wouldn't be here, if that were the case. What about single parent families? Strap the kid to your back while you work? You think Vietmom's baby girl would be better off in some nasty foreign orphanage? I can think of plenty of people who shouldn't have kids, but it's certainly not because the child will spend time with a sitter or in daycare. Maybe rude people should be banned from reproducing - that would at least cut you out of the gene pool.
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I am not not not defending anyone, but it hacks me off when people (a) live in an incredibly expensive area, (b) insist on having private care for their kid (because Junior can't go to day care? wtf?) AND (c) bitch that the amount they are paying their caretaker, which is not close to enough to live on in the area -- let alone support a family -- is too much and is almost as much as their own pay. Jesus. They have a lot of choices. (a) move someplace cheaper, (b) send the kid to daycare instead of having the expensive nanny or (c) have the lower-paid spouse stay home for a while to stop the cash hemmorage. If the lower-paid spouse does not want to stay home (because of career path requirements or personal satisfaction issues), you aren't willing to move and you insist on having expensive nanny care, then suck it up and accept that you have to make a financial sacrifice to have it all.
This is not an attack on trepadation mom or anyone else, either, it's just that there's no conversation on the FB and I'm kinda bored.
