Affording to Stay at Home

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Registered: 12-01-2007
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.

Blythe

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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 8:08pm

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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 8:34pm
Oh please.
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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 8:47pm

It helps get into the college you want, that's for sure.

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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 8:47pm

Row, row, row your boat!


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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 8:53pm

You are digging deep now. Please tell me where you would have been without your DCP? I worked in childcare ,you know taking care of other people's kids while they worked.

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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 8:57pm
Research is a room full of monkeys claiming that 6 out of 10

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Registered: 10-30-2007
Thu, 12-20-2007 - 9:07pm
Didnt you go to college after marriage and after being a step mother and a sahm?
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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 9:08pm

please. I don't have it all figured out -- it's LIFE -- it's messy complicated outrageous fabulous crazy sad awesome. it's not a formula to figure out.

I'm happy. period. and I didn't need to consult a study to figure that out. if that makes me arrogant then fine.

"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 9:10pm

oh and PS>. I like to learn too -- here's who I've learned from - Shakespeare, Dickinson, Milton, Keats, Yeats, Miller, Williams, O'neil, Guare, Sondheim, Mamet, Mcnally, Rabe -- I take my learning from books and plays and poems that reflect the human condition at its best and its worst. Charts graphs and research? Formulas and equations? that's notlearning. That's torture.

"If gay Americans are not allowed to get married and have all the benefits that American citizens are entitled to by the Bill of Rights, they should get one hell of a tax break. That is my opinion,"

- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.

 

Yes. We. Did.

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Thu, 12-20-2007 - 9:24pm

"Going to college for 4 years wouldn't change what I would make working in childcare by much at all."


Not sure if I am reading this correctly but are you saying that you think you make as much in childcare than someone who goes to college for 4 years?

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