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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Even companion animals serve a higher purpose, as study after study has shown conclusively that pet owners have lower blood pressure, live longer, tend to be healthier, experience greatly reduced stress and recover quicker from surgery and illness than non-pet owners. Studies have shown conclusively that companions pets brought to nursing homes have an immediately and beneficial effect on the patients they visit. Alzheimer's and other non-responsible patients show a marked improvment in cognitive functions, are more alert and animated.
They may not *seem* to be doing much, but they are a huge factor in the quality of human lives, and isn't that what you've been saying is the hallmark of worthiness? The value they bring to others?
Seems to me that people who live like dogs and other pets ought to deserve the highest levels of respect, not the lowest.
;) (not to worry, you couldn't have known :)
Hey, OTBM, has she described the tilework and special grout in her bathroom yet?
The whole conversation arose through the debate at hand. I didn't just start a thread talking about these things (and wouldn't do that).
I know someone who owns the market in town, and they are raking it in, 2 homes one here one in Nantucket, both worth well over a million. I have no doubt that your family has money, they OWN the market, not just manage it. Big difference.
Yeah, sure, whatever, let's believe that it's all true. It certainly makes for a fun read, I'll say that.
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