Prudence, if you go to a big firm, the only trait you'll be valued for is your ability to bill time.
Most women aren't raised to be stay at home moms. What this leads to in my neighborhood is a bunch of overeducated women flocking to our underfunded school to volunteer as room mom, do fundraising, or this, that or the other thing. I strongly suspect that most of these women vote against the occasional property tax increase that gets floated to help the school district because god forbid the schools should be properly funded; they'd have nothing to do. There were also like 20 volunteers for the "field trip" to the pumpkin patch, each with two or three kids to shepherd. When I was a kid, the stay at home moms drank, did lunch, had affairs and fired the cleaning lady.
No one should feel guilty about not attending t-ball games because t-ball should not exist in the first place.
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