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To be fair, both parents are expected to work while wages have not kept up. Work demands more than ever from you with less upside than ever before. My point is that parents are stretched thin.


Revealing too much about yourself when you call kids an "it"


Excuse me I'm not a native speaker, what is the gender neutral term to refer to a child?


They or their. It's a little awkward when you're referring to a specific person but becoming less so over time. However, you're referring to a generic person so "they" or "their" would be appropriate even without today's political correctness.




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