SAH doesn't support change,

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SAH doesn't support change,
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Sat, 08-26-2006 - 4:58pm

"SAH doesn't support change, it supports going backwards to the 1950's,"

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I wholeheartedly disagree. To me, SAH is a choice. How is that going back to the 1950s, when a lot of women didn't have much of a choice.

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 7:57pm
Me too. Although I am very happy to SAH while my girls are young, and I enjoy doing the suzie homemaker thing (well, most days. Sometimes i get sick of laundry ;> ), I know I would start to crave work after a while, especially when they start school. I'm fortunate enough to be able to WAH too.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 7:59pm
I wasn't talking about working with them all day long, just more than "not at all."

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Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:01pm
I've enjoyed all my jobs just not as much as I enjoy being with my son :)
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Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:02pm
Oh yes!

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Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:04pm
Considering I'm basing that income on what my husband gets right now, working 4 days a week, AFTER taxes are taken out, I don't really need to make allowances for FICA because that number is based on what my husband is already getting AFTER FICA. Minimum wage isn't any lower there than it is here, and the amount of money people tend to give as tips doesn't change state to state. Kthxbye ;)
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Registered: 08-16-2004
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:06pm
Where did I say I would buy life and disability but not health? I just said that they can be as useful as health insurance. Now, this is really none of your business. If I couldn't afford health insurance on $1300 working 4 days a week...then I imagine I'd just work more hours so that I could. How about that?
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Registered: 08-16-2004
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:08pm
No, my central argument is that anecdotes are relevant but that stats and research define the norm and represent the majority.
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Registered: 08-16-2004
Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:10pm
Well, I'd feel feminine whether I WOH or not. Being a wife, mother, and a woman just makes me feel feminine, lol.
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Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:11pm
I think I'll handle each day as it comes and do what I think is best for each of my individual children at any given time in their life.
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Wed, 08-30-2006 - 8:13pm
I wouldn't either. However, having work experience/education, as you've already stated, is pretty irrelevent if you haven't been working the whole time. Weren't we just discussing how taking a year off, or even a few to SAH, has such huge negative impacts on one's career? See, an attitude like that would suggest that simply having a degree wouldn't be enough unless you've been working the whole time, too. Regardless, working my ass off and "doing what I have to do" for a little while because I have to is, to me, better than spending time and money on something there's only a small chance I'll ever use.

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