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> I'm not sure what the answer is,

Drop the implicit assumption that only the mother needs to give up her career to raise a child.

For some reason, nobody sheds tears over successful entrepreneur, lawyer, and doctor men who are unable to make that work with raising children.

A pregnancy lasts 9 months. Raising a child takes ~200 months.



Maybe the implicit assumption is that society and work culture shouldn’t punish parents so harshly?


There's two implict assumptions.

1. If you're a working mother, you're currently assumed to either be a bad worker, or a bad mother. (Sad corollary: If you're a working father, most people don't assume this about you.)

2. If you're a professional man, and you want children, your wife is expected to compromise her career, to raise them.

Both of these are, of course, complete bullshit.




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