Why should I support someone else?
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| Sat, 12-30-2006 - 1:24pm |
Let me start by saying that I"m new here so this may have already been discussed, but this has come up in my office several times and I wanted to get some other views of this.
I do payroll for a rather small company so I know most of the workers and their wives (most of the workers are men due to the nature of our business). There are two in particular who's wives SAH. These two are up to their eyeballs in debt. I have bill collectors constantly calling for them. That part is really their business, it is annoying but I enjoy being rude back to the bill collectors, lol.
The part that bothers me is that both wives have been in the office wanting copies of X amount of check stubs so that they can go and get public assistance (I know because they told me that is what it is for)! Why should my tax money go so that these women can SAH? I know that not all families that one parent stays at home are like this, but I know lots that are. Heck, growing up we were always broke because my mother refused to work, but we weren't on any public assistance.
So, why should I pay for a woman to SAH? Why can't she go and get a job to support her family just like anyone else?


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but I don't think I'd want him home alone for several hours every single workday
Why not?
Our computer is downstairs in the family room, and while there's usually an adult there in the evening, there is a lot of time, such as when I am in the kitchen cooking, or on weekends when I often go to bed before the kids, when there isn't an adult there. Or when the kids have friends over, they like a little privacy downstairs, so DH and I hang out upstairs in the den while the kids hang there, only checking in every now and again. I trust the kids to a certain extent, but DS#1 is very impulsive and both are likelier to do something dumb with their friends than when they are alone.
You are very smart about it Laura.
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