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Becoming a Developer/Mom After a Five-Year Hiatus

• smoyer 7y ago
  When we first became parents, my wife was a stay-at-home mom ... it was our priority to raise our kids. So back then when someone asked what I did, I'd generally tell them "I'm a go-to-work dad". It's true that they'd often still want to know what I did at work (and I'd tell them) but it was important to indicate that work was a lower priority to me than my family. So while the title of this article uses "Developer/Mom", I'd suggest that's backwards (why would you bother having kids otherwise?). Just a suggestion from "Dad/Developer".
  • MyHypatia 7y ago
    That's very thoughtful of you. One of the things I find frustrating is that politicians will say, "being a mom is the most important job in the world." But we know that it actually isn't valued as such, otherwise we would have stay-at-home moms (and dads) as part of the political decision-making process, and we would have policies that support families like affordable healthcare so that the health of an entire family isn't dependent on the go-to-work person not being subject to lay-off or benefits change.