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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You *do* know, don't you, that babies, especially really young ones, sleep at daycare, too, don't you? And since that time doesn't count, they still spend the majority--the vast majority--of their time at home with Mom and/or Dad.
You militants keep forgetting that if sleep time doesn't count, it doesn't count for ANYONE. Not even the daycare provider. Or the selfless SAHM who, after all, cannot possibly be there 24/7. If sleep time doesn't count.
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If sleeping time does not count for the WOHP then it also dos not count for the SAHP.
- Jeane "Dear Abby" Phillips, in an interview with Lisa Leff.
Yes. We. Did.
And again I have asked you to post any of these studies you keep talking about that show income levels have anything to do with it.
Since you havent I will take that as your answer.
http://readyweb.crc.uiuc.edu/library/1994/crnic1.html
http://www.cfah.org/factsoflife/vol7no12.cfm
http://www.macses.ucsf.edu/Research/Social%20Environment/notebook/education.html
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/159/11/1047
http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/highered/eippubs/eip98-14/eip98-14.pdf
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/OSEP96AnlRpt/chap4b.html
Ty for posting those.
However they still do not say that SES are one of the most important factors in regarding how a child will turn out, if they will go to college and all that.
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