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For many women nowadays, choosing whether to work or not to work outside the home is a luxury: They must work to (36)________Others face a hard decision. Perhaps the easiest choice has to do with (37)________. One husband said, "Marge and I decided after careful consideration that for her to go back to work at this moment was an extravagance we couldn’’t (38)________." With two preschool children, it soon became clear in their figuring that with babysitters, (39)________, and increased taxes, rather than having more money by having a working mother, they might (40)________end up with less. Economic factors are usually the first to be (41)________, but they are not the most important. The most important aspects of the decision have to do with the (42)________needs of each member of the family. It is in this area that husbands and wives find themselves having to face many confusing and (43)________feelings. There are many women who find that homemaking is boring or who feel imprisoned if they have to stay home with a young child or several children. (44)________________. From my own experience, I would like to suggest that sometimes the decision to go back to work is made in too much haste. (45)________________. I wasn’’t mature enough to see how much I could have gained at home. I regret my impatience to get on with my career. (46)________________.