Affording to Stay at Home
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| Wed, 12-12-2007 - 12:20am |
Ever notice that those moms that SAH are usually (although not always) more well off than mothers who WOH? It seems to me, based on what I have seen, that while most women enjoy working their jobs and having a professional life outside of the home, some women prefer to stay home with their kids for a certain amount of time - whether it be 1 year or 10 years - and those women have the option to do so, while other women wouldn't even consider the option because they feel they can't afford it.
Well, it has been my experience that most women who do stay at home have
1) husbands who support the idea
2) Husbands who probably earn enough (or almost enough) to support the family.
3) Enough money to support themselves without working.
**Now I am not talking about people who get help from government agencies, I am speaking about women who do it with no outside help - just seems like most women can't because of financial reasons. So, is being a SAH mom now an "upper class" phenomenon - in general? Of course there are many SAH moms that are middle class, but if they chose to have paying jobs, they'd probably move right back up into that higher income bracket.

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Is she moving to your specific area, your specific state?
PumpkinAngel
Sigh, you aren't going to ask me for examples of your negative extremes any more, are you?
PumpkinAngel
Moving to yet another extreme.
PumpkinAngel
I missed a lot, lol.........
I disagreed that the OP faced no difficulties in finding a good school district for her kids while apartment hunting.
NOBODY, let me repeat it again, NOBODY ever said it would be easy.
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Ducky
Well let's see, all of the major grocery stores around my area sell lottery tickets and have either machines clearly marked and/or signs clearly marked, all of the gas stations sell both, again with signs and such...so you would avoid all the major grocery stores and all of the gas stations?
That's pretty darn extreme.
PumpkinAngel
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