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Normalize Making Career Sacrifices to Raise Your Babies
Intellectual Takeout ^ | April 14, 2025 | Sarah Wilder

Posted on 04/14/2025 7:52:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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1 posted on 04/14/2025 7:52:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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Using a baby as a prop to promote a slogan and some New Democrat scheme for political corruption.

Shameful


2 posted on 04/14/2025 7:59:01 PM PDT by PGR88
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And DISGUSTING!

It was her choice to run for that seat and it was also HER choice to have that baby. Choose one or the other; you can't have both.

3 posted on 04/14/2025 8:00:56 PM PDT by nopardons
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Congresswoman Luna, of Florida, was working with her on the subject. Luna is a Republican.


4 posted on 04/14/2025 8:08:41 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I want to add , Congresswoman Luna has a toddler, so the subject is personal for her too.


5 posted on 04/14/2025 8:10:19 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Based on the development life cycle of a child, I am firmly convinced that women should not work if they have children, from the child’s birth until the child naturally separates from the mother at around age 7-9. Then they can work. From birth until the child separates, they can prepare to work and everything but just not work. After the child separates, the father then takes over and basically tows his children everywhere.

I think that is what is what is in the best interest of the child.


6 posted on 04/14/2025 8:13:29 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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I took big steps back in my career twice.

Went from full-time to part-time once the babies arrived. Back to full-time when they were in school. From a high profile c-suite position down to a GM when my middle child was diagnosed with an incurable medical condition, back to a corner office once we got everything under control.

Kids came first.

No job will remember you when you are gone, but your children will.


7 posted on 04/14/2025 8:16:33 PM PDT by TheWriterTX (šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øāœļøšŸ™šŸ‡®šŸ‡±)
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I have noticed that women who sacrifice having children for their careers end up being bitter, hateful individuals in later life.


8 posted on 04/14/2025 8:19:20 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Yes, because women who do this are going against their inner selves.


9 posted on 04/14/2025 8:23:36 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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They also tend to be experts on parenting, telling everyone what to do with their their children.


10 posted on 04/14/2025 8:25:38 PM PDT by cnsmom
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The question they should be asking, as all of us, is what does God want us to do?


11 posted on 04/14/2025 8:30:53 PM PDT by alternatives?
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Worked part time when my kids were born.

Eight years later my employer demanded I work full time.

Quite and volunteered full time at my kids school and homeschooled my kids after school.

Now one has a Phd in AI and the other a Pediatrician.

Your kids come first!


12 posted on 04/14/2025 8:33:19 PM PDT by lizma2 (Re-assignation on MLK Jr.)
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ā€œ They also tend to be experts on parenting, telling everyone what to do with their their children.ā€
As my dad pointed out many years ago, the CPS is made up of bull dykes who never had children and want to destroy traditional families.


13 posted on 04/14/2025 8:38:40 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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I have noticed that women who sacrifice having children for their careers end up being bitter, hateful individuals in later life.

Mm… šŸ˜•I’ve seen the opposite to be true too. In profound ways. I mean there was a reason why 20th century feminism resonates. My findings.

1) It depends what you mean by ā€œcareer.ā€ There’s a difference between women investing themselves in doing something they don’t even enjoy for the sole purpose of making money - vs. ā€œcallingā€ - pursuing an actual passion or allowing a gift to space to fully blossom. Especially something time sensitive like dance (which no one exactly goes into to make bank)— but you know some psychologists, writers, journalists. scientists, historians, doctors GENUINELY find fulfillment in their field! Politics too! If it weren’t so, these conundrums above wouldn’t exist.

2) THE BIGGEST FACTOR as to whether a (married) woman will feel content outside OR inside the home is a husband’s love and support! And if unmarried, then parental moral support. If a woman gave up a calling to be married and have kids due to pressure from parents. Oooo, very very bad.

14 posted on 04/14/2025 8:40:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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CPS is populated with bitter angry control freaks.

My wife and I took in 4 kids (family placement) for about a year. These CPS people were impossible to deal with.

Constant impossible demands and lots of attitude.


15 posted on 04/14/2025 8:46:42 PM PDT by Texas resident ( We finally have an American President again)
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Totally agree


16 posted on 04/14/2025 8:53:43 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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Dad takes a 7 year old to work with him?


17 posted on 04/14/2025 8:57:40 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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I’m talking about the currants he runs after work. Women teach their children to be secure and fathers teach their children to face the world.


18 posted on 04/14/2025 9:00:37 PM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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British Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian, former Australia Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and the first woman premier in Tasmania, Lara Giddings.

And Harris.

Leader Country / Gov. Body Biological Children Stepchildren
Emmanuel Macron France 0 3
Angela Merkel Germany 0 2
Theresa May United Kingdom 0 0
Giuseppe Conte* Italy (*as of 2018) 1 0
Mark Rutte Holland 0 0
Stefan Lofven Sweden 0 2
Xavier Bettel Luxembourg 0 0
Nicola Sturgeon Scotland 0 0
Raimonds Vējonis Latvia 2 0
Dalia Grybauskaite Lithuania 0 0
Klaus Werner lohannis Romania 0 0
Jean-Claude Juncker European Commission 0 0


19 posted on 04/14/2025 9:09:55 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s² )
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My wife went back to work when our daughter was 12. I was self-employed and health insurance was bankrupting us. She had to get a job where we could get employer provided group health insurance. I was at home working much of the time so I took the kid to school and picked her up and made her after school snacks. The kid had a pretty good deal, lots of time with both parents and she turned out pretty well.


20 posted on 04/14/2025 9:23:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there)
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