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 don't control other adults but I have asked, begged and pleaded to no avail. I did make my Mom return a video game a few years ago but I gave in this year and now my kid has hibernated in his room with a Wii. The fight was bigger than the time I had to spare.
My kids are not in private or public school but according to your rules we do have a high SES because they are in all kinds of clubs and educational activities as well as the usual scouts and physical activities. We do go on vacations but have not been outside the USA due to cost so in my opinion and from what I've read here - that lowers our SES.
Our state has some sort of program where she gets her groceries paid for or mostly paid for. The equipment she got when her kids were little was also paid-for by the state through a grant.
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"Middle class" and "apartment" are both very broad, very elastic terms that mean entirely different things to different people.
Who said anything against poor people, or hanging out with them?
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