I know. I hate to butcher mike myer's work but well...I must.
"things have changed since the 60s coconut..."
"as long as women are still getting educated and embarking upon careers and having babies then quitting to be homemakers while their men shoulder all financial responsibility in a consequence free environment..."
This is the part where anyone with an actual clue, and a grip on reality, falls into hysterics. Some people of course...will not get it.
You teach today so you can spend the day *next door* to your 5 yr old and eat lunch with her a few times a week. If the kid suddenly magically ended up spending her days sitting in a tree house, you'd quit teaching to sit in a tree house in the same tree. The reason its icky when women hold your attitude is that it is so completely dependant upon men, even when they would like to have a little of both mixed together...not even considering to do it. Of COURSE your husband won't ever consider it...to do it HE would have to subject his family and himself to a the income of a teacher with very little experience. YOU can't provide for YOUR husband what you EXPECT him to provide for YOU. And you actually believe...this is some right of women.
It just so happens me dd's class & lunch schedule is the same as mine since I teach at her school & I teach Kindergarten. It is nice because I get to do what the other parents do regularly, have lunch with my dd. But we don't do this everyday as she has friends & I have friends. So she eats with the class & I eat in the teacher's lounge.
I guess it bothers you to be dependent on a man. Not all women, as I, feel that way. I suggest you deal with it & move on.
I do make enough to provide well for our family. My dh doesn't want to be a SAHD in the same way there are women who don't want to be SAHMS.
I don't expect anything providing wise from my dh. We have set our goals & we live by that.
I have read through this thread and it just amazes me how bitter and angry some of your posts sound. Why does it bother you that women who choose to SAH are actually happy with their choice? I know several women who have the same view of SAH as you - they are hurting all womankind (What a bunch of BS) and women will never be equal with men because of this so-called choice, they need to "get out there and make just as much money as those evil men who hoard all the wonderful jobs to be EMPOWERED" (another bunch of BS). My grandpa used to say, "He/She how dies with the most money, still dies - so why bother?" That is exactly what I feel - why not do what is best for your family? Do we all need to solve this "problem", as you call it, if we don't see any problem? In another thread, the question of equal rights vs equality was addressed - we have equal rights with men so I don't see why "equality" is something that needs to be grasped? There seems to be alot of anti-feminist feminism going on here - women before us fought for the opportunity to have choices, now women are saying they want one of those choices to be gone? So instead of women being allowed choose a PERFECTLY VALID CHOICE of SAH, we all need to fight a fight that most of us don't even see is out there? Sorry, I guess I will stick with the stereotype that allows women to choose what makes them happy.
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"things have changed since the 60s coconut..."
"as long as women are still getting educated and embarking upon careers and having babies then quitting to be homemakers while their men shoulder all financial responsibility in a consequence free environment..."
This is the part where anyone with an actual clue, and a grip on reality, falls into hysterics. Some people of course...will not get it.
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It just so happens me dd's class & lunch schedule is the same as mine since I teach at her school & I teach Kindergarten. It is nice because I get to do what the other parents do regularly, have lunch with my dd. But we don't do this everyday as she has friends & I have friends. So she eats with the class & I eat in the teacher's lounge.
I guess it bothers you to be dependent on a man. Not all women, as I, feel that way. I suggest you deal with it & move on.
I do make enough to provide well for our family. My dh doesn't want to be a SAHD in the same way there are women who don't want to be SAHMS.
I don't expect anything providing wise from my dh. We have set our goals & we live by that.
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