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Am single, young-ish, and pregnant. My job is ok, but not extremely lucrative nor satisfying. I live in a country where there is no mandatory maternity leave, and none of it paid. I would be able to take 5 weeks at my current job maximum.
I studied child development at university and have longed for a child of my own for quite awhile, but the thought of having to leave them at 5 weeks in full time nursery is making me seriously .
If I quit my job, I could go on benefits as a single mother, and there is an initiative in the town I live in for single mothers to live independently yet in a group of flats where they provide full-time education (free) and you can take the children with you to the uni classes. I would like to retrain, although that will take 2 years. I really, really want to be home as long as possible, 12 months ideally, although I suppose 6 months would be ok as it's what I'm used to being a British ex-pat. My elderly mother lives here to provide me with emotional support and occasionaly babysitting, although she is not able to care for an infant full time or even part time.
AIBU? I will take the flaming if so. Just the thought of leaving my helpless tiny baby in nursery (0 nannies here, literally) makes me so so so
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AIBU...to consider quitting my job and going on benefits for the first year of DC's life?
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ConfusedPreggo · 03/12/2011 01:50
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