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The Working Mom and Custody Issues
| Mon, 11-30-2009 - 8:24pm |
There was an article in this month's Working mother magazine about wrking mom's losing custody to SAHD's.

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Edited 12/19/2009 8:04 am ET by merella
Dh does, esp during soccer season. He would either go in early b/c he had to leave earlier than normal four days a week, or he'd work after the kids went to bed. In his company, certain jobs have more rigid schedules, but for him, as long as he's fulfilling his billable hours, he can come and go. He normally works 8-5:30 or 6pm when he isn't coaching or have something he needs to do earlier than that, but he puts in hours sometimes at night and on weekends b/c of his position. He's in upper management and works for a global company so there are sometimes phone calls at night or proposals due where the team is working late (from each of their homes) talking by cell phone or email the whole time.
It was the same way at the last company he worked. IME, esp those in management/upper mgmt, there is a lot of flexibility.
Too personal for whom?
You made a comparision between a parent who spends 8 hours a day vs. 2 hours a day with the child:
"I'm not making a judgement here, just that time spent with a child doesn't equal parenting....one parent could spend 8 hours a day, the other spend 2 hours a day...it doesn't mean that the parent spending 8 hours is spending all of that time parenting."
No one argued that the parent spending 8 hrs a day spent the entire time parenting, but I said that you could do a lot more parenting in 8 hours than in 2 hours.
I agree it's not the same. I might spend a lot of time with my niece and nephew, providing care and building a relationship, but it won't be at the same level as my own kids unless something happens and I start raising my niece and nephew.
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