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Children pose by far the most troublesome issues for partners in dual-career families. For some the greatest anguish concerns whether to have a child at all. For others it’s where they’ll find the time and how they’ll manage all the day-to-day parenting activities.
The world is full of fathers who rarely see their children [because of their careers]; for mothers [with careers] to do the same thing is not the answer.1
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Gilbert, L.A. (1988). What about Children?. In: Sharing it all. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2792-7_5
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