Kids as an "excuse" to stay home

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Kids as an "excuse" to stay home
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Fri, 08-15-2008 - 2:16pm

No one would likely ever admit to this...but what percentage of women who stay at home, and have no plans to ever return to the work force, or to do more than work PT...stay home because of the kids, but also for the major fact that they simply don't want to work?


I don't love my job every second, and there's definitely jobs out there that I don't think I could get out of bed for every day. But the idea of never working again, and being completely dependent on my spouse...kind of blows my mind. I realize not everyone's of the same ilk, and one's not better than the other.


I do wonder how many of the women who go on and on about how great it is to be home with the kids, are primarily just relieved to not have to punch the clock every day in addition to being mom.


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iVillage Member
Registered: 07-18-2007
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:19am
I haz a laff.

Yeah well, that's just, ya know, like, your opinion, man-The Big Lebowski 

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:25am

oh,the irony...i don't claim to have a superior position over others.

 

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:30am
You're barking up the wrong tree if you think that PKA isn't active in her church because she works outside the home. I would gladly pit you hour against hour donated to the church myself if you think that somehow your being active in your church is something that you can do that women who choose to work outside the home cannot do.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:31am

"but go right ahead,pka's sol does require two incomes.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 10-05-2007
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:34am

I have a couple of questions.......


If it's your choice to sah, why do you woh?


Why do you think that it's okay to go around spewing your moral superiority for having a choice to sah (when others can not afford such a choice), but it's wrong for your friends to point out to the kids that *they* can afford an ipod when *other* families can not?


Do you really believe that you've had the choice to sah?

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Ducky

iVillage Member
Registered: 10-05-2007
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:38am

I know a number of women (and a couple of men)

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Ducky

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-15-2006
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:56am

again,please stop with the assumptions that my choices are more superior than wohms whose choices require two incomes.

 

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-29-2002
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:59am
Could you perhaps give a description of the issue you feel people on this board are refusing to address? I'm genuinely curious and I love to discuss issues.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 11:59am

"....it would be nice though to hear that other standards of living,choices are based on more of an income than mine does though.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Fri, 08-22-2008 - 12:06pm

<< but go right ahead,pka's sol does require two incomes.

PumpkinAngel

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