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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I may have mentioned this before but one of my favorite mottos (I'm big on mottos if you hadn't noticed) is that it isn't a good day unless I make at least one person laugh out loud...
glad I succeeded!
- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.
Yes. We. Did.
Do you think that telling a three year old that his salary will never be two hundred thousand a year if he works as a professor is anything other than a waste of breath?
I think my version was more along the lines of "they have different kinds of jobs and they have to be at the hospital all day" or something like that.
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I thought Id also throw in that I also dont think children in a lower SES or in a "crappy" zip code are subject to discrimination of such a type either. As another
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