Did both of your parents work during your childhood?

[StuntAcorn]

Both mine and DH's parents all worked during our childhoods.
We're early 70s babies.

Apparently this is quite uncommon within our circles, as most of them experienced one full time SAHP.

Oh yes I see now said “from young”. Sorry. Becoming a latchkey child didn’t happen until I was 11. I had older siblings but they didn’t “look after” me as such and we didn’t do stuff together. We all had our own friends and would either go out or watch tv etc.

Both worked full time. We went to a childminder from a few months, my dm remembers popping in throughout the day (district nurse) to breastfeed.

No. Dad worked full time but DM was in and out of part time work because of a chronic health condition which meant she had long spells of being off sick.

Mum worked 12 hours a week as a boarding school matron to pay my school fees but that's it, she was a SAHM until I was 10 and then stopped working when I finished my A levels . I've never known her to have a "proper" job. I was born in 76

Both my parents worked - Mum worked nights and often weekends. My Dad also worked long hours and often took on a second job before Christmas or for a holiday. Around 9 my Mum had a full time in the day. My sister went to nursery and she was picked up from school by a Montessori nursery - this was in the late 80’s and into early 90s. I used to walk home afterschool with my sister to my Nans for a hour then onto home!

Fairly normal in my family none of the females SAHP. All worked in some form sadly though often low paid. My Nana was a nurse and she loved her job - how she managed with 5 children!

@30percent if you read the thread you’ll see quite a few of us said how we were looked after.

Early 70s - yes both worked full time and so did my aunt and both her husbands. Occupations include teaching, nursing and civil service.

Both parents worked full time. I went to a child minder until I was 7. After that I let myself in at home until my parents came back from work around 4ish

Me and my sister born late eighties, mum had us in her early twenties and has never worked outside the house since then. Have other family members in the same boat - all working class. I always thought this was the norm but judging by this thread apparently not!

My mother returned to work when I was eight. This was in the early 60s. This worked well as she was school secretary at my junior school so pretty much the same hours and term times as me. She began her teacher training when I went to secondary school at age eleven. We were fortunate in that my grandparents lived in the same street as us and were both retired so there were never any issues with childcare.

I'm a mid 60s baby both my parents worked, when I was young my dad was a teacher and my mum worked at the telephone exchange in the evening , once my little sister was in secondary school my mum became a civil servant.

Same. My maternal grandmother worked as well.

My dad was a uni lecturer and mum was in education too, but management (eventually). No family near by so if me or my sister were ill we got taken to work with them and isolated in some room or other.

My parents had 3 dc born between 1970 and 1975. Both were unskilled workers. Dad worked full time and every hour of overtime available to him. My mum worked part time doing all sorts (cleaning, carer, school dinner lady, Avon lady etc). We simply couldn’t have lived off Dad’s wage alone. But until we started secondary school, they always made sure that one of them was at home. They must have passed each other like ships in the night.

My ILs were the opposite. MIL became a housewife as soon as she was married. FIL worked his way up in the City She was left to do everything at home and to do with their 3 dc. She never needed to work. And she was utterly miserable. Can you guess which marriage lasted?

@30percent dad picked us up from school until I was about 8 or 9. From then we walked home with the kids and parents that lived further up the hill and we waited for dad to get home at about 4:30/5pm. Mum would get home at 6ish but she didn’t really do child stuff.

Oh and my grandmother’s also always worked. The stay at home mum just wasn’t a thing in working class families where every penny mattered.

My grandmother worked throughout her life but from home. She took in laundry. Lots of women worked in their homes with kids being raised at the same time.

My parents both worked, on and off, mostly off.

The people claiming their mothers worked from when they were super young in low paid jobs because they were poor. I havent seen anyone explain where the kids were?? People whos mother's started working when they were old enough to let themselves in yeah and people who's parents had good jobs and could afford a nanny yeah.

Maybe I missed it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Born 1968. Youngest of 5. Ddad worked full time & did foreigners evenings and Saturdays. DM worked evenings. I had to go with Ddad on the evenings he did foreigners.

Yes, mostly. Both parents worked FT when I was young. My mum went back to work when I was 3 months old. My dad left work due to disability when I was probably 10, though that had no impact on me really because they were divorced by then and I barely saw him, so it wasn’t like he was home and present as a parent. My mum had my very devoted grandparents to do absolutely everything, all childcare until I started school plus then all school holidays. Very unlike Dh and I who both have always worked, but without any family support whatsoever. I was born in 1980.

At the expense of sounding like an idiot what do you mean? He did people from other countries? Or like the band foreigner?

My mum stopped working when she had my brother and then went back part-time (and term time only) when I (the youngest) started primary school. Then, when I started secondary school she went full time.

I was born in 1970. My dad worked but my mam stayed at home. It was pretty much the same for most of my schoolmates.

Bor 1895, mum stopped working when pregnant with me and started part time work of about an hour a day in term.time when I was about 3. Lots of my. classmates' mums stayed at home.

Born late 70s, Parents spilt when I was 5, dm worked full time in a factory and often did overtime to make ends meet. She says she regrets that she wasn't at home for dsis and me and that she worked so much. Dad paid minimum maintenance.