SAH doesn't support change,
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SAH doesn't support change,
| Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm |
"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"
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I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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I don't think that's a fair criticism; money is more important to some parents than to others, but for most of us it's still pretty important. To think so doesn't imply one has materialistic values. The COL around here is such that it costs a tremendous amount just to get into Walmart or Target once in a while, let alone brand name items.
Also, we're not talking about luxury items versus having both parents together, are we? In a divorce, those aren't realy the choices.
do you really want me to speculate about how it could have worked? do i really want to listen to the litany of specific and speculative details that you would use to nitpick my speculation to death? probably not.
i'll raise your impossiblity and ancedote with several of my own. i come from a family of teachers, and my dh and many of our friends and neighobrs are teachers. among those who have had children, i know a very few who never tried to breastfeed, some who pumped at work, and a vast majority who managed to breastfeed as long as they wanted to with or without the pump. teaching generally isn't an espeically pump- or in many ways even family-friendly profession, but it isn't impossible to make it work.
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