[James]

Liar! You know you just went for the MRS. Degree.

Originally posted by aephi alum
This article just makes my blood boil.

This just underlines the fact that women, even today, have to choose between having a career and having a family. Men can have both without a problem. I know a guy who came to the office the very day his wife gave birth. But if a mother goes back to work, she gets "What's wrong with you? Don't you care enough about your children to raise them yourself instead of sending them to day care?"

I made it quite clear to my husband, before we even got engaged, that I refuse to be a stay-at-home mom or even voluntarily go part-time. He's less than thrilled - he says that you can't pay anyone enough money to raise your kids the way you, the parents, would want them raised, and he has a point. (I told him that if that was the way he felt, he could stay home. ) But he accepts that my career is part of me, and that giving it up would be like cutting off my arm. My mother-in-law, who was a SAHM, does not understand me at all in this regard. My mother understands - but then again, although she went part-time after I was born, she never stopped working.

I did NOT attend a top-rated university for five years, earning bachelor's and master's degrees, to sit at home and change diapers all day.