Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
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Is the SAHM the new status symbol?
| 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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Unless you're going to bed all dirty, muddy & sweaty, which is just gross. :)
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Even then, I do believe the extra income my DH makes by being able to work longer hours (and the tax bracket we are in as compared to the average nanny's) more than makes up for this, even.
Wow, I hadn't considered, though, that even though my family does just dandy on my DH's income, I'm actually doing society a disservice by being the SAH one in our family, because I made even MORE $$ than DH and we would be paying even more in taxes if he SAH and I worked than we do with him working and me SAH! Oh, dear. I just feel so bad for the world now that I'm not working in it - I'm now personally responsible for a large chunk the budget deficit, I guess.
What's the point of having a staff if it makes your life SO difficult and hard to manage?
Again, so you both WOH. What does WOH contribute to anyone OTHER than your own family?
What do you mean by your first sentence?
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