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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Registered: 06-16-2007
Fri, 12-21-2007 - 9:58pm

This is not only in response to what you said, but to others also...I specified "pre-school-aged children" for a reason.

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Fri, 12-21-2007 - 10:07pm

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Registered: 06-16-2007
Fri, 12-21-2007 - 10:55pm
Does TIA stand for something or is that your name?
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Fri, 12-21-2007 - 11:02pm
Thanks in advance in net speak.
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Registered: 07-26-2007
Fri, 12-21-2007 - 11:15pm

How personable and upbeat were you?

Think Eeyore. Only darker and more depressing.

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Kitty

"I think Noonan is at least eight years too late when she laments that faith now trumps competence in GOP politics. It didn't seem to bother her much when a candidate she supported -- the catastrophically underqualified GWB -- was running and citing Jesus as his favorite political philosopher...It's like the old saying: When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with Hucka-fleas..."--Gator


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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Fri, 12-21-2007 - 11:16pm

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?

Oh, c'mon. I bet it's every bit as effective as telling one that "Photosynthesis is the process by which plants, some bacteria, and some protistans use the energy from sunlight to produce sugar, which cellular respiration converts into ATP, the "fuel" used by all living things. The conversion of unusable sunlight energy into usable chemical energy, is associated with the actions of the green pigment chlorophyll. Most of the time, the photosynthetic process uses water and releases the oxygen that we absolutely must have to stay alive."

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Kitty

"I think Noonan is at least eight years too late when she laments that faith now trumps competence in GOP politics. It didn't seem to bother her much when a candidate she supported -- the catastrophically underqualified GWB -- was running and citing Jesus as his favorite political philosopher...It's like the old saying: When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with Hucka-fleas..."--Gator


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 07-26-2007
Fri, 12-21-2007 - 11:25pm

That's possibly true.

And then you have homeschoolers like the Weavers, from the Family Edition of The Amazing Race (aka Season 8), whose "teacher"/mom wasn't sure which state Philadelphia was, and pointed out Lake Pontchartrain proudly as "one of the Great Lakes". You're not going to see her children at the National Geography Bee any time soon.

And on any given day here at iVillage, you'll have self-proclaimed homeschoolers mangling your/you're and there/their/they're, not to mention other kinds of apostrophe atrocities.

So while I appreciate and understand your desire to defend homeschooling, particularly in light of the poster to whom you were replying, the fact is homeschooling runs the gamut of good and bad, just like every other kind of schooling and cannot truly be pigeon-holed into one size fits all, and all one need do is declare one's home a homeschooling home for one's children to automatically benefit.

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Kitty

"I think Noonan is at least eight years too late when she laments that faith now trumps competence in GOP politics. It didn't seem to bother her much when a candidate she supported -- the catastrophically underqualified GWB -- was running and citing Jesus as his favorite political philosopher...It's like the old saying: When you lie down with dogs, you wake up with Hucka-fleas..."--Gator


Click on the Virginia Rescue Center and search for Roxey, VA5165

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Kitty

"BTW, I hate Lifetime. Their movies will suck you in and all of a sudden you've watched 3 in a row, used every tissue in t

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Registered: 06-16-2007
Sat, 12-22-2007 - 12:02am

The outcome variables said research looks at include: psychological health; physical health; academic achievement; future committment to goals across the board (academic, social, professional, marital, and others); and most importantly as the studies state (and I agree on a personal level, if I may interject my own opinion), in a child's emotional stability with regard to solidifying an identity that is

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Registered: 12-18-2007
Sat, 12-22-2007 - 6:28am

Oh yes I agree

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