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Old 01-13-2004, 11:10 PM
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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.
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