Why does some people think women at home
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Why does some people think women at home
| Sat, 06-07-2003 - 1:02am |
should do it all? I hear this and think why should a woman at home do every thing? Shouldn't it be whatever works? Shouldn't it be whatever floats the boat of the married couple? Confused on this thinking.
If you are home do you do it all? How does your DH or SO feel?
WOH do you do it all or do you split it? Do you do more or less since you WOH?
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Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
A person with a high SES, whose SAHM neighbors have nice homes and take the kids to music classes, reading day at the library, Gymboree, etc., would have a different take on this issue.
We have friends/relatives/acquaintances from varying economic backgrounds. We do know women who never developed a career and therefore SAH made the most sense when it came time to have children. We also know women who had very satifying lucrative careers and married later. They chose to SAH because they felt they had accomplished their goals and now wanted to focus on childrearing.
i would say in general in our area people marry later in life and tend to have a higher standard of living as they are older.
Another thing I was thinking about-along the lines of the whole housework issue, when a wohp cleans the house in the evening, that house stays clean and empty all day!!!! Totally different than being IN a house and cleaning it as you go on a daily basis. If I only had to do housework once a day, I'd feel like I had it pretty easy. But when we are picking up legos or putting away playdough for the 3rd time in a day, doing breakfast dishes, doing lunch dishes, sweeping the floor 3x a day because the dogs tracked mud in AGAIN....you know what I mean??
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Dj
"Now when I need help, I look in the mirror" ~Kanye West~
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