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The working mom in USA

My mother was/is a working mother. She has been working for the same company for the last 35 years and I have seen her succeed over and over all this time. We (my brother and me) were put in day care as babies and we grew up knowing that mommy and daddy work 8-5, five days a week and both jobs were…

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Do you have a family plan? Or not…

Four years ago I told my husband we were ready for children. He was skeptical or better said he thought he was too young… Me on the other hand thought we were ready. I was 24 years old, I had a good job, we just put our lives together after Hurricane Katrina destroyed it, and though life was…

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Should I feel guilty?

I am a young (29) years old wife and mom and at the same time I went to school for engineering.  I  have a husband I adore, a 2 years old son who is the bright side of everything in my life and an engineer (naval architect and marine engineer to be exact).  I worked for an mechanical…

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