Staying at home a choice??
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Staying at home a choice??
| Sun, 04-29-2007 - 6:46am |
The author of this article thinks most mothers go to work because they want to, not because they have to.
"Most parents from two-parent families today do have a choice when it comes to parental care. They can try and talk themselves into believing they don't, but it really boils down to priorities."
http://backofthebook.ca/living/2007/03/part-time-ophanages-part-2-job-only.html
Does anyone (other than her) really believe this? I don't know of anyone among my friends who works who wouldn't rather be staying at home with their children. But they don't have the choice!

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Just my preference I guess.
I'm with you. When you are an adult, you live on your own and you make do with what you have until you can afford better. You don't go running to mommy and daddy for money.
When I was just out of college I bought a used mattress for $30 from the guy who was moving out from the apartment I was moving into. Didn't kill me. In fact, it didn't even bother me -- I was happy to have a mattress with an actual boxspring and bedframe! Honestly, I don't get this whole entitlement thing where people think they are "supposed" to have things. You get things as you can afford them.
LOL
You just said in a previous post that you bought all new furniture when you got married.
You have already replaced that new furniture.
So obviously your brand new furniture did not give you 20 years of service. It probably gave you no more years of service then used furniture would have.
I found it funny that she saw runny to mommy and daddy as a solution.
It ok to live on you own if you cannot afford a new mattress if you run to mommy and daddy to run for the solution to the problem but not ok to live on your own if you cannot afford a new mattress but find another solution to the problem. LOL.
My kitchen set was fine and I sold it at a garage sale. We had to get something larger as our family got bigger.
Talk about your snotty little judgments, but whatever. Sometimes, people do what they have to do.
I'm sorry, but I have to agree and don't find it snotty at all. My dh and were engaged for 2 years. I wanted to finish college and we wanted to save money for furniture and our honeymoon. If you can't afford a $500 or sometimes less mattress, how CAN you afford to live on your own?
"How can you see if it is clean? All sorts of body fluids one cant see in a mattress."
I TOTALLY agree with you. Did you ever watch that show on MTV with the girls going into the guys rooms with one of those lights on the bed? GROSS!!
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