Posted on 12/27/2022 10:56:30 AM PST by grundle
My husband and I spent our first seven years of marriage building our careers.
When our second child was born, we realized how expensive day care would be.
My husband decided to stay at home with the kids, and I grew my career — and our family thrives.
Sixteen years ago, my husband and I decided to make a big shift for our family.
Peter and I had spent the first seven years of our married life without kids, supporting each other in our separate career goals. When our son was born, we continued to balance it all, but when we welcomed our daughter almost three years later, the reality hit us.
We now had two children under the age of 3 and two demanding career paths — his as a classically trained chef who never had weekends or holidays off, and mine as a creative-agency founder just getting her company off the ground.
On top of this, we discovered that day-care costs for two were not cheap. As we considered our options, we recalled what my husband said jokingly when we became parents: "Whoever is making more money goes back to work."
Back then, I knew in a flash that would be me and I would love that. With our daughter's arrival, it felt like time to revisit the thought.
When we talked it over seriously, things came into perspective. We realized that in paying for day care for two, we'd be making only about $10,000 more a year by having two incomes. I knew I could find a way to fill that gap. And if Peter, who had always been a hands-on, nurturing parent, became a stay-at-home dad, the kids would have an incredible experience. It made sense.
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A stay at home mom is even better.
New age movie — the Breastfeeding Dad.
At least the kids will eat well. Mom at home is better though.
He’ll always be her bit@h. And submissive. He isn’t the man of the house.
220-221, whatever it takes.
He’s going to join the HOA and start writing blogs next.
My best friend is a stay at home dad. His wife is a teacher. Two kids, not toddlers. He does a little trading on Ebay, mostly Star Wars (he has the largest collection I’ve ever seen), and he has a couple of regular saxophone gigs.
Whatever works....
It’ll be ok as long as he does the shopping, laundry and has dinner ready when his “wife” gets home. LOL
true, but from what i’ve read, they always get bitter...
If they divorce, does he get at least half of everything because he had to ‘sacrifice by benefiting the domestic relationship by caring for the kids’ while she brought home the bacon, thereby putting him at an economic disadvantage?
Sorry for taking the topic there, but I have my suspicions a good portion of the judges wont see it that way even though they usually do when the genders are flipped.
He’ll always be her bit@h. And submissive. He isn’t the man of the house.
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Is that because he’ll probably spend his time wanking off instead of the watching the kids…?
A stay at home mom is even better.
Having a mother and a father is best. Doesn’t matter which one is getting the income,
shame on daddy that he didn't have valuable work skills so he could provide the nest for his children and their mother....
that's the point....traditional men's roles were to provide the home environment.....
too many men seem to think they can be flunkies and dabble at their work and then just abandon it all together....
this is not the way society should be headed....
we need traditional marriage roles....
I can guarentee that in a couple of yrs when the kids are in in school full time there will be growing resentment....
Was this article written in 1980? There’s absolutely nothing new here. Maybe the author dusted off a 1980 article and updated it.
Then your future as an internet troll is bright!
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