Is the SAHM the new status symbol?

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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: 03-25-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:09am
Don't you see that as a problem? I mean, just like the woman whose entire life is SAH, or her children, what if something happens? What will you do if you are suddenly unable to work? (Physical accident, loss of licensing in your field, job market becomes terrible, any number of things) Money will probably not be a problem, as we all know you are well prepared, but mentally, what will you do? Don't you see that it is dangerous to depend on any one thing for your self worth?
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:13am
I know she does but people will argue with you tooth and nail that a waitress can not make more money than them or at all they have this low regard that a waitress is a servant and they tip them for reward...bwaaaaa~. It is simply b/c they have never really been in the buisness and they have no clue of the buisness they only hold the sterotype of the buisness.
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:13am
I see your point & ITA. S.V.
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:14am
Mu husband said the same thing as we were discussing these posts. S.V.
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:17am
Yah. If they will harp on people about their showering & linen use and eating in bed you are right. S.V.
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:42am
Actually, what you are describing is a philosophy known to the ancients as "epicureanism" Epicurus, who lived in the 3rd century BC and his followers thought that human existence is essentially reactive -- we just experience what goes on, withoutreally beingcapable of changing it. He argued that that this sort of life may be a good one, if the experiences are mostly pleasant onesand that the goal of our existence is merely to find mental ease and freedom from pain: in other words, as the Gospel summarized, "relax, eat, drink, be merry." And yes, there were those in the ancient world who wondered, then, if there was anything that separated the Epicureans from the animals.......

Nihil est novum sub solum.....

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:48am
Mx! Maxchandler, is that YOU????? This whole scenario is sounding SOOOOOO familiar......
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:52am
Hey! My husband's uncle, who owned half of Southport, Connecticut at one point through inheritance, went to work at a mattress caster factory -- spent his life supervising people who made those little plastic wheels on your bed frame. Loved it, too. Very proud of his 69 dollar a week pension check......
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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:58am
But most trust fund babies don't work as waitresses because it earns them good money. Most trust fund babies work because they enjoy it.

Susan

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Fri, 10-03-2003 - 10:58am
Two showers a day and changing the sheets daily are not normal. The only time my ds get 2 showers a day if its a hot summer day. My mom is quite a neat person and she only changes the sheets once a week. I believe that is standard.

Edited to correct spelling errors


Edited 10/3/2003 11:10:00 AM ET by tickmich

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