I agree that it's important that a parent is home for the children as much as possible.
I don't agree that it HAS to be the woman.
( girlinthehole, Wed 30 Dec 2009, 10:30, 2 replies)

this ^
symmetry: i don't see why a man should work?
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I agree, either parent will do.
However, if women hadn't started working in the first place we wouldn't be in this situation.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 30 Dec 2009, 10:58, closed)

Or.......
If men had helped more with the kids all those years ago thus making it seem normal, then this wouldn't be an issue.
( girlinthehole, Wed 30 Dec 2009, 11:25, closed)

fair point but...
... you could make the case that both genders were trapped in highly constrained roles for quite some time and where men could be violent, anti-social, controlling and got killed in wars, women could be bitchy, manipulative and got raped 'because they were asking for it' ... neither was really very good ... so what we used to do has been used as a template for what happens *now*, but what happens *next* is up to us to decide ...
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