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I agree with ECUGSS and 33girl here (and for the record, I don't have kids, so I'm sure some of you will automatically discount my opinion). Well said, too, 33girl, about the need for women to have LIVES of their own after they have children.
The thing that pisses me off is that everybody is so quick to judge this woman without knowing the whole story -- the article is trying very hard to paint a picture of her being thoughtless and awful, but we don't really know if that's the case (maybe one of the sisters is trying to cover her own butt by making the mother look bad, no?).
The real question here is: what about the father? Maybe he's out every night partying all night long, and nobody would even say "boo" about that, would they? Maybe this woman *is* a responsible mother and never goes out but ONCE decided to go out. Why does she deserve harsh judgment because of the TIME OF DAY she went out? Would it be okay if she left her child with sitters to go to a bridge game at 2:00 in the afternoon? It seems that there are some very narrow roles for women being prescribed here.
Granted I don't have kids, but I've never heard of a certified babysitter. If you can't trust your sorority sisters, who are really *like* family, who can you trust?
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