regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) (07/11/85)
>I think the best solution would be for both partners >to take turns (a year or two each, at least until the >child gets into nursery school or something). > SJBerry It is certainly _A_ solution. Me and my SO have opted out for a time- share option ourselves. He's home all morning, I'm home all afternoon. The kid(s) get influence from both and neither of us are overworked with either crayons or computers. We also don't listen to each other without sympathy, which can happen when jobs aren't shared and understood. Sometimes this is difficult to manage with work schedules and specific job expectations, but then the expectation of some jobs is that you put in an 80 hour week and have no private life, which isn't a job that either of us would elect to undertake. It is up to the workers to design their options, rather than just waiting for the employer to "grant" them. Not an easy road, sometimes, but not impossible either, and definately worth it. To each his own.