Militants - are they for real?

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Militants - are they for real?
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Tue, 04-14-2009 - 6:59pm

Someone on another board posted this link.
http://blogs.babycenter.com/celebrities/2009/04/12/dr-laura-says-all-moms-should-stay-at-home/?scid=momstodd_20090414_A:2&pe=2U8vYLf
It's about Dr. Laura saying that all women should be SAHMs until the child is at least 3 years old.

Whether we're talking about working or staying at home, I can't quite wrap my head around what is going on inside the brains of people that apply the phrase "all women should".

Do you think militants are actually serious, or just trying to get a rise out of others?

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:05pm

If it were really important, you would have put it first.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:07pm

No.

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Registered: 04-22-2005
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:07pm
I do agree that the 6 weeks leave in the U.S. is meant for physical recovery, not parenting. That's very apparent to me.
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Registered: 04-22-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:26pm
i had two of my three kids while working on my graduate degree. I finished the degree courses ONE WEEK before #3 was born!
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Registered: 02-06-2006
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:34pm

You're wrong.

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:36pm

mr. new_day_dawning had to take a 10% paycut this fall. In addition to that our renter is not paying even 1/2 the rent (he's family and we're trying to work with him) and ex is only paying about 1/4 of his child support obligation per month (nevermind how much back cs he owes)....


if either of us lost our job now, we'd be dead in the water within a month or two.

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Registered: 04-22-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:38pm
however, like any single mom (BTDT), she functions on ONE income -- just like a family with a sahp.
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Registered: 02-07-2009
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:38pm

"Now, my girls who were born after dh and I finished college have already picked majors and schools. They'll join the long list of cousins who had parents put college first and put college first."

The only problem with your theory is until they have finished college you have no way of knowing of what you expect to happen will happen.

That is what I was referring to in my earlier post about statistics. The statistic that a child who's mother finished college before having child is more likely to do the same may be true. There is no statistic that says that all children whose mother finished college before having children will do the same.

While it may be more likely that your DDs will follow in your footsteps you have no real way of knowing it will happen until it does.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:39pm

No, sorry, according to your own theory, when you do things shows whether it's a priority. College wasn't a priority until your late 20s, so that's what you modeled. And although you didn't have your own kids until you were 36, you were raising your stepkids all that time.

You're hardly in a position to criticize ladybug.

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Registered: 05-06-2007
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:41pm

"If it were really important, you would have put it first.

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