Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Tue, 09-23-2003 - 10:36pm
In the 70's and 80's women fought to get into the workforce (the whole Ms. magazine generation)...and then the tide turned in the late 1990's when more women started to stay home by choice. Now, it seems like being a SAHM is a status symbol....and superior to being a working mom.

Kat

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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:22pm
LOL~ im wrong..........................................................................


Edited 10/3/2003 10:15:23 PM ET by silverunity
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:22pm
Nope. You're right.
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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:23pm
Hello! Did you read the article? What part of "100%" did you not understand?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:25pm
Because you're not smart enough to read the link you yourself posted. Do you have Arthur Andersen as your accountant????

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:29pm
I always give tips in cash because then they dont have to report it. I do this because so many people undertip it makes me sick.
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:29pm
Tax humor! I LOVE IT! :)
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:29pm
I'm planning to answer your identical question to me, BTW, I'm just trying to figure out how to explain it to you in a way you might possibly comprehend. (I'll have to try to type veeeee-ry sloooooooow-ly, LOL!) (BTW, even if I disagree with your basic "work=meaning, no work=no meaning" premise, I appreciate it that you are taking this conversation in good humor, unlike some others.)

While I'm trying to do that, I thought I'd ask again whether you've come up with any way to explain how it is that what you do is societally meaningful OTHER than that it contributes to the GNP. (OT - is that even technically correct considering law is essentially a service industry?)

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:30pm
Then you're aiding and abetting breaking the law if you know they won't report it.

Do you see how angry this makes those of us who work for a living? Should make your hard working DH see red.

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:30pm
Have you read lucaslawmom's post?
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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 1:31pm
Try this before you quit your day job:

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1872.pdf

Oh, by the way, what is the name of your business? I know some people who'd be *very* interested . . .

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