Militants - are they for real?

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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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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:47pm

It's actually called "parental leave," Cyndi. That means either mom or dad can take it.

Yes, I work for a large private university that gives staff 10 week and faculty a full semester parental leave.

So you think it takes *dads* 10 to 14+ weeks to recover physically from giving birth? Adoptive parents? They get it too.

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:50pm

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This is what doesn't make sense to me. If the mom is only contributing $17k of the income (which indicates a low-paying field in which re-entry and pensions are not likely to be an issue), and the mom has an infant and a toddler (costing, in my area, a total of $400 a week for daycare), then she would have a net *loss* of $2200 a year by working if she works 48 weeks that year. In this situation, the family would be financially worse off than if she had just stayed home until the kids entered school. She also has plenty of time to model being a working mom between kindergarten and high school graduation.

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:52pm

While I agree that education IS important, it will never, ever come before my child.

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:52pm
If college were really important to you, you would have put it first, rather than marrying at a young age and raising your stepkids.
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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:53pm

WOW!

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 8:56pm
Ahhhh, so that's the story. I just posted question this beause the math wasn't adding up in my head. Thanks! :-)

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 9:07pm

the timing was even better because if I hadn't finished that class when I did I would have had to request in writing an extension for my program and I SO did not want to do that.


also, the last class was an independent study where I ended up being the group leader (i was 32) -- while all of the younger (19's, 20's) co-eds did the investigative piece -- and I put together the final product.

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 9:16pm

It's that way because many kids come in already having been taught what they'd have learned in kindergarten.

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Tue, 05-05-2009 - 9:29pm

Wanting something doesn't make it of value.

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Registered: 08-25-2008
Tue, 05-05-2009 - 9:32pm
Correct.

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