Which came first, the title or the SAHW?

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Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
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Fri, 12-19-2003 - 9:04am
Last night I attended my husband's work Christmas party. I sat with the CEO, CFO, CTO, COO (Chief operations officer, I didn't know that acronym, I had to ask), Creative Director, Marketing Director and their wives. Near the end of the evening it was just we wives chatting mostly about kids. I made the observation that even though all the wives were intelligent, educated and accomplished women, not a single one (except me), woh. They are all SAHM's.

Any thoughts on why that might be? I have my own opinion but I'd like to hear from everyone else first. Do you think they sah because of their husbands jobs or their husbands have their jobs because the wives stay home? Or doesn't it matter?

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 7:59pm
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:04pm
But you're missing her point. Bush lied, LIED, *LIED* about the WMD. Do you not see that him lying about that is immoral. And if you think he lied about them just to get over and save the poor oppressed people of Iraq, then you are quite niave.
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:06pm
Couldn't agree more.
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:44pm
Im right there with you in In-law h@ll. im to the point where i am not even going to visit them while in nj. the last (one sided) conversation, or should i say badgering i took, took the cake, and i refuse to try to even talk to them, because in their eyes i am the root to all the financial evil in our marriage despite the fact that they never taught their son to budget money.......as if our finances are any of their business anyway. dd, ds2 and i will go back to the safety of faraway life in nc, tomorrow, LOL, where i dont have to deal with them. my kids visited them, but i wont even talk to them anymore. after thirty years of cr@p from them, im done. Sooooooo, see ya'll in "in-law h@ll". at least it will be a good group, huh?!! LOL

we did have an awesome time at laurenmom2boys house yesterday. our parents, our brother and his family and two of my kids and i were there. lauren made THE BEST pork roast i have had in a long time. mashed potatos and gravy, with green bean cassorole. yuuuum! and kisses all around from all my little nephews!!

btw, i have two boys, but i also have jaime(thank goodness!) and just experiencing my in-laws will make me an awesome mil, i think.

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:40pm

The various tax rates are set according to what the taxation base can be expected to realistically handle, and where the particular tax dollar from a particular source is going. If you wish to fund social assistance programs with phone bill taxes, its possible that the phone bill tax will be going up quite a bit.


Oh, and when they set up the lottery system, they told us the funds were going to support education, too.

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:43pm
LOL, I'm not the one with a problem arguing here. No, people are not entitled to take from the system because they're tax payers. They're entitled when they're doing everything they can do and still can't make it. WIC isn't a SAH supplement.
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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 9:49pm
Yes I can, lol. Yes my working status does matter BECAUSE it raises my family's SES (SES is one of the things we know matters). I know WHY it matters. However, working status alone doesn't matter as any kind of general rule. To say it matters you need to be able to say why it matters. If you can't then you have no idea whether or not it really matters. I know WHY my working matters. That's a lot different than me just saying WOH is a benefit to kids and expecting everyone to just accept that without any kind of evicdence the way the MSAHM's do when they try to claim that SAH is better without any explanation or evidence.

I have said, repeatedly, that, finances aside SAH/WOH doesn't matter. Yes, it is consistent to say that my WOH matters when you throw in the financial aspects. Where do you find the inconsistency in my argument?


Edited 12/22/2003 10:13:24 PM ET by cyndluagain

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 11:35pm

I've seen a table very similar to this one, actually.

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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 11:39pm

If people are not entitled to "take from the system" despite they're

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Tue, 12-23-2003 - 2:47am
Either it was planned that way or that was one HELL of a coincidence. . .maybe your husband continued to receive it by mistake. . .god knows the military is known for overpaying then expecting repayment.


Who knows with the military! They'd have a hard time taking repayment back now since he's out:)

Mary


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