Do people need a reason to SAH?
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Do people need a reason to SAH?
| Sun, 07-18-2010 - 9:28am |
This theme was touched upon in another thread and I wanted to discuss it further.
| Sun, 07-18-2010 - 9:28am |
This theme was touched upon in another thread and I wanted to discuss it further.
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"Also, I've noticed that in some groups (moms with lots of small kids especially), people do tend to volunteer that they use WIC. It always makes me slightly uncomfortable. And it makes me fairly angry when the person has just spent five minutes talking about how she could never put her kid in daycare and mothers who do are terrible parents."
I have recently come to the conclusion that the people who have such strong feelings against working mothers/other people using day care have developed those feelings as a defense mechanism. It seems they always come from people who are not in the best financial position for staying home--they are either collecting some form of gov't assistance or their family is sacrificing a lot for them to stay home. At first, I thought they entered parenthood with such strong feelings against working/day care, that they were willing to make whatever sacrifices/accept whatever aid they could to do it. Then I met a few people who started out with "I can't earn enough to cover the cost of day care" or "I really want to stay home, it's the life I always dreamed of", but after a few years of scraping by, or feeling judged, or tension with their spouse, they no longer feel comfortable admitting it is their preference. They start making it out to be the only decent choice by bashing their alternative (working and using day care).
The people I know who have chosen to stay home, and who have the support of their spouse, and are not sacrificing much to do it, tend to have a much more open-minded view of the SAH/WOH choice.
John W. Gardner
Ten Rules for Being Human
Malcolm Gladwell Blink
John W. Gardner
Ten Rules for Being Human
Malcolm Gladwell Blink
I'll jump in here. My boss at the bridal shop is Chinese. Apparently the Chinese has a tradition that all children born in the same generation have names that start with the same letter. So my boss's granddaughters all start with As and the grandsons all start with Rs.
Chris
The truth may be out there but lies are in your head. Terry Pratchett
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