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: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:22am
So animals can be trained to serve a higher purpose other than themselves. So can humans, if they recognize the need to do so. We can have pets as "companion animals." People need and are called upon to do and be more IMO.

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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:24am
n/t
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:26am
It is apparent you can't deal with the fact there are people who take more than one shower a day. What is your problem? Never mind. You've went on and on about it. S.V.
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Registered: 09-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:28am
Then how is one suppose to debate on an internet board about specifics like we do here about the financial reasoning behind woh/sah? How can any of us debate our side without revealing personal information? S.V.
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:28am
I understand what you are implying here and it makes a lot of sense but perhaps the sahm you speak of worked very hard to get to where she is now. We really can not assume otherwise.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:30am
Humans Must be more according to whom?



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Registered: 08-19-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:30am
WOW. That's a very interesting statistic, *where* did you get that?

I was a waitress for 6 years - through part of high school and all of college. The people I worked with who were career waitstaff were not "rolling in the dough" and we worked at an average, family-style steak restaurant.

My DH worked at a chain restaurant in NYC - loads of tourists and $$. Guess what? The tourists didn't tip much (if at all!) b/c it's not really common in other countries! Plus, the restaurant he worked at paid peanuts for the paychecks b/c the employer thought the staff would make up for it in tips. Which they didn't.

Like I said, I know there are some waitressing gigs that paid a lot. Just not the "majority" of them.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:31am
I said IMO. Feel free to agree that they must be sentient beings only.

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Registered: 07-21-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:32am
I waitressed when I was in college and you better believe I was a servant.
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Registered: 08-01-2003
Fri, 10-03-2003 - 11:32am
Not most some. Any sahm not working gets money and If he runs off with the staff he is screwed she will get more than half of what he is worth and than some PLUS the house the kids and the family money. That is a big no no to any judge in a divorce trial that is fact, remember I have been divorced.


Edited 10/3/2003 11:35:30 AM ET by silverunity

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