Working parents and life-threatening illness
There are so many iterations of a mother’s decision (or non-decision) to work or stay home, but very little about working or staying home when when you have a life-threatening illness.
Susan, of Toddler Planet, an Inflammatory Breast Cancer survivor, speaks to this twist on the working mother debate very eloquently:
They are doing a morbid kind of calculus: if they have five years to live, they will need to keep working to provide for their family, particularly for needs after they are gone. If they have two months to live, they would want to stop working now to spend as much time as possible with their babies. But what of those with an estimate of two years? What of the vast majority of us with no definite prognosis but a late-stage cancer nonetheless?
What is the responsible thing to do?
Find out what she thinks is one important factor in making this wrenching decision.
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