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, 12-27-2007 - 4:08pm
I have been to places in the city when I was younger with school but I really have no desire, as does my dh, to see museums or many cultural things. Just as you don't enjoy the things I like, I don't enjoy the things you like. It is not sad, it is just different.
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Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:08pm
I know, I know, I know.
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Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:09pm
If by "make a difference" you actually mean "offer a point of view will listen to" then I guess nobody at all had to weigh in. However, I doubt more than 5 people actually addressed your misguided notion that car mechanics are poor, illiterate, homebodies with no ties to the community.

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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:10pm
I think it's called "class insecurity" in the scholarly literature.
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Registered: 04-27-2005
Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:10pm
I agree it all depends on the area and how much her mortgage is. In higher col areas, $100,000 won't get you very far.
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Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:12pm
I just have a hard time wrapping my head around the idea that parents don't do everything they can to further their children's education and to give them as many experiences in life as they possibly can. I find it difficult to believe that people could be so lacking in curiousity about, or interest in, the wider world around them.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:12pm
Very imaginative, but without basis in anything I've posted.
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Registered: 03-27-2003
Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:13pm
Well, I wasn't going to go there, but
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Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:14pm
But surely as an "educated" person, she would know that not all apts are like that.
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Registered: 12-29-2004
Thu, 12-27-2007 - 4:14pm
Sorry if you didn't care for my reference to car mechanics to exemplify what I originally meant.

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