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> Here, children are driven to school by their parents. When school ends, the parents are there waiting in their cars. Do parents get out of their work in the

by sampo 9y ago

> Here, children are driven to school by their parents. When school ends, the parents are there waiting in their cars. Do parents get out of their work in the middle of the afternoon to drive their kids from school to home? Do they go back to work for the last couple hours after that? Or do kids have 8-hour schooldays?

souprock 9y ago
I'm sure it varies by family. Some people have fully flexible time. Some people have a part-time job or two, so they simply don't agree to work shifts during the times they need to drive the kids around. Some people don't work, often because a single income is supporting a two-parent household.
- watwut 9y ago
  Or they don't work, because the parent is expected to wait for the child in car, although the child is big enough to transport itself had there been reasonable public transport.
TrickyRick 9y ago
It's called housewives, a concept abandoned by most of the modern world.
- watwut 9y ago
  And for good reasons.
  - sethammons 9y ago
    Good reasons such as? I think the rise of the dual income household is a major contributor to many problems. This is not to say that woman in the workplace is bad, I think a diverse workforce is a good thing. But the dual income family has lessened parent-child interaction and raised the average household income which I think raises general prices for just about everything, but especially housing. This makes it harder to get by as a single parent (which tends to affect woman more than men). And the increased cost of housing is a major problem and contributor to poverty and all the issues that brings. It might have been better if the addition of woman to the workplace included an equal shift of men to a househusband role. PS I like your username.
    - watwut 9y ago
      I am women. It would have to be me who would have to stay. And I did stayed some time while the kids were small and disliked that a lot. You get used to depression as a normal state, basically.
sethammons 9y ago
Luckily my wife only works a few hours a week, so she was able to pick up our kids from school (before we opted for homeschooling). For my brother and his wife, they both work full-time. They can get some help from Grandma, some help from friends who have a stay at home mom, and some help from us. On days where none of that lines up, either he or his wife have to leave work, take kids home, and usually go back to the office. There is no public transportation available here and they removed school buses maybe 10 years ago as a cost cutting measure. When I was a kid, the school bus worked fantastic. It is crazy they don't run them anymore.

by sampo 9y ago

souprock 9y ago

I'm sure it varies by family. Some people have fully flexible time. Some people have a part-time job or two, so they simply don't agree to work shifts during the times they need to drive the kids around. Some people don't work, often because a single income is supporting a two-parent household.

watwut 9y ago
Or they don't work, because the parent is expected to wait for the child in car, although the child is big enough to transport itself had there been reasonable public transport.

TrickyRick 9y ago

It's called housewives, a concept abandoned by most of the modern world.

watwut 9y ago
And for good reasons.
- sethammons 9y ago
  Good reasons such as? I think the rise of the dual income household is a major contributor to many problems. This is not to say that woman in the workplace is bad, I think a diverse workforce is a good thing. But the dual income family has lessened parent-child interaction and raised the average household income which I think raises general prices for just about everything, but especially housing. This makes it harder to get by as a single parent (which tends to affect woman more than men). And the increased cost of housing is a major problem and contributor to poverty and all the issues that brings. It might have been better if the addition of woman to the workplace included an equal shift of men to a househusband role. PS I like your username.
  - watwut 9y ago
    I am women. It would have to be me who would have to stay. And I did stayed some time while the kids were small and disliked that a lot. You get used to depression as a normal state, basically.

sethammons 9y ago

Luckily my wife only works a few hours a week, so she was able to pick up our kids from school (before we opted for homeschooling). For my brother and his wife, they both work full-time. They can get some help from Grandma, some help from friends who have a stay at home mom, and some help from us. On days where none of that lines up, either he or his wife have to leave work, take kids home, and usually go back to the office. There is no public transportation available here and they removed school buses maybe 10 years ago as a cost cutting measure. When I was a kid, the school bus worked fantastic. It is crazy they don't run them anymore.