Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

iVillage Member
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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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:39pm
I could write a book on things to keep me busy outside of working out of the home & volunteering.

Part of the very reason I'm a SAH.

S.V.

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:39pm
C'mon, it really stretches the imagination.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:40pm
Disagree. S.V.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:41pm
Why? Whether you're happy pursuing an activity in no way translates to whether or not it's worthwhile.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:43pm
Yes. Since he is the only one working. But I thougt you were thinking he interviewed & hired her. No, I did that.

If you mean you yourself pay for her with your salary. Then that is fine with you. The money dh brings in is ours. I can pay someone to clean the house or buy clothes for myself, or if he could get me to travel without him (I just don't like the idea of it) I could go to Europe by myself. I don't feel the need to earn the money myself to have these things.

S.V.

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:43pm
I really think that comment is hitting below the belt. S.V.
iVillage Member
Registered: 08-19-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:44pm
Maybe you could not be so wasteful?
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-01-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:46pm
Don't see cleanliness as being wasteful. SOrry. S.V.
iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:46pm
You don't feel the need the earn the money yourself - that's very secure of you. I could never feel that way.

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 10-02-2003 - 4:47pm
Any animal then. I am totally serious. Why is it philosophically ok for a human being's purpose in life to maximize their own pleasure?

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