Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
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Which came first, the title or the SAHW?
| 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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You claim over and over and over again how sah is of no benefit to children. Constantly, ad nauseum. If that's the case, I wonder why we parent our children at all. Perhaps as a society we should breed and send our children to be raised by the professionals. After all, you keep droning on about how SAH with one's children doesn't enhance, improve or benefit them in anyway at all, only improved SES does.
And for those with really good jobs, they could send their offspring to the topnotch institutions. What a concept.
dj
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
My dd went to Boys and girls club one summer, it has a program for kids up to age 13 (there really is NOTHING here for over that age). But the kid/adult ratio was at the limit legally, which meant these kids were NOT watched well. They were given a lot of autonomy, and got into a lot of trouble. Kids out back smoking, etc. Thats the other thing too-the older the child is, the less of a ratio there has to be legally. Which means that these older kids really arent getting much in the way of supervision.
dj
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
Even if the family is comfortable on one salary, what happens when Dad is downsized at 47 and cant find a job making anywhere near what he was making before? I have seen this happen to friends/family and whether mom works makes a huge difference at that point. In an extreme case, my mom met a man who later commited suicide after he had lost his executive postion and was on the verge of losing his house.
Susan
We know that. I've told you over and over again how it benefitted my family, yet you continue to ignore my responses. You're incapable of even trying to understand why some people feel that sah is beneficial to their families.
There's no point in debating an issue with a person who can't or won't even try acknowledge a sah's reasons. You could at least give a person enough respect to try to see things their way, but you won't.
dj
Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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