On Sep 30, 2005, at 12:09 PM, Mary E. Tyler wrote:
Frankly, having worked 60 hour weeks, there wasn't enough left of
me to be a parent. The day my daughter said to me "when are you
coming home to be my mommy again?" I knew the answer had to be,
"soon." Someone has to take care of the kids. It's rotten, unfair
and inefficient that women have to give up their careers to do it.
But given that as the only choice, that's what they do.
There are probably a surprising number of men who would do it as well
I should have said "a parent" but the honest truth is that 99.9995%
of the time, it's women who do it. More power to the men who do, but
most men i know havea very rose tinted idea of what it's like to be
a SAHM.
dej
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