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: 05-28-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:18pm
But if you cared then wouldn't you think about it?
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:19pm
Don't really think they have to be trained to do it; humans either.

How much training does the companion animal to someone homebound need to sit in their lap or by their side or at their feet and simply be a comfort to them?

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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:23pm
Yes dh has to work. His family all works. I loved the job itself & it brought me joy, but I had the opportunity to opt out & do something else. So I did. Yes, my dh does love his work & is a work-a-holic. He works everday, long hours. I'm proud for him.
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Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:25pm
My parents raised us to go for it, get exactly what we want out of life & have fun. That is what I'm doing. I don't need it, but I definately have my parent's blessing.
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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:29pm
Well there you go then. Truly wealthy "old monied" families don't have to work. They can live off of their interest and holdings.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-13-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:35pm
work in expected. Men don't live their days on the greens or at the club, they work for a living. Would be greatly frowned upon if they didn't!
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:40pm
Well, I once worked and shared an office with a young woman who was marrying a trust fund baby. He has two siblings and neither worked. They just played. Her fiance though wanted more out of life and worked. That impressed her.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:41pm
"Men don't live their days on the greens or at the club, they work for a living. Would be greatly frowned upon if they didn't!"

Isnt this statement inconsistent with your own life and postings about it?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:41pm
bwahahahaha! "changed the laws"...yeah, right. When I waited tables in from 1976 to 1979, the laws required all tips to be reported. The *laws* haven't changed; just the mechanisms for keeping tax cheaters honest.

and it's interesting to me that when it suits your argument, you claim ignorance of English and American society, but now we're supposed to believe you're some kind of US Tax law and divorce law expert?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 3:43pm
Bwahaha!

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