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Her husband makes loads, and she works part time, but they can't afford a nanny?
1 posted on 01/17/2025 5:26:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
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” It naturally means my career has had to take a back seat while I’m at home with the kids,” she explained.”

TORTURE. That’s how the Leftists see it. And if these attitudes do not change, and SOON, there will be Western Civilization left.


2 posted on 01/17/2025 5:29:37 PM PST by BobL
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I’ve generally earned more than my wife but there was a time (i’m a software engr she has an MBA) when i earned less and it was around the time of the birth of our 2 children. I was so glad to share the time of raising our children. I can’t imagine regretting any of the time i spent with my children growing up in exchange for some ‘career advancement.’


3 posted on 01/17/2025 5:31:19 PM PST by posterchild
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Sounds to me like they shouldn’t have had kids.


4 posted on 01/17/2025 5:31:21 PM PST by econjack
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Dang. Which is worse or better? A 'reluctant and resentful stay-at-home' Dad, or Mom???

Maybe you should have figured this out before the kid came along...
5 posted on 01/17/2025 5:33:09 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Written by Buttplug?


6 posted on 01/17/2025 5:33:12 PM PST by sasquatch (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit! c/o piytar)
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My experience as a never married older man is that grandmothers love grandchildren.


7 posted on 01/17/2025 5:33:23 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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Her job is to be a mother and a homemaker. That is the calling God gave her. She has been blessed with a hard working husband and children.

8 posted on 01/17/2025 5:33:28 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
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Why, that poor thing!! She does realize, I HOPE - that there are people in this country with REAL PROBLEMS??

“”Work or stay at home and take care of my children?”” Whatever shall I do?


9 posted on 01/17/2025 5:33:36 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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Until children start the process of separation, a woman should not work if it can be helped. After the kids start separating themselves should she start working if she wishes.


13 posted on 01/17/2025 5:37:00 PM PST by Jonty30 (Liberals are a fulfillment of II Tim3:5. We are instructed to have nothing to do with those people. )
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This woman’s life expectancy is probably 80 or more years. If she takes 20 years off to raise kids, she still has decades afterwards to pursue her own interests.
Women really can have it all. They just cannot have it all at once.


14 posted on 01/17/2025 5:37:17 PM PST by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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What a stupid woman!


15 posted on 01/17/2025 5:37:27 PM PST by Chickensoup
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rich man bad. poor man bad. all men bad.


17 posted on 01/17/2025 5:38:54 PM PST by dadfly
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She can raise her own children and make a home that has a real family life because her husband is busting his hump and producing for his family. No, much better to complain on a female griping forum to solicit support for her ungrateful attitude, act out on it, and maybe set her husband up to find a second wife who has her head screwed on straight. The new Western Civ baffles me.


19 posted on 01/17/2025 5:41:06 PM PST by Iowa Slim
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Hang on. I thought all the cool, rich kids worked from home? Why aren’t both high-flying parents at home, doting on their kids and making big money jiggling the mouse? At least mom can do that, right? 🫠


22 posted on 01/17/2025 5:42:17 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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No names. No description of either her or her husband's jobs. Stock photos.

What a pointless and useless article.

23 posted on 01/17/2025 5:42:20 PM PST by Drew68
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She has it made. A lot of moms would love to be able to stay home with their kids. Some people are never happy.


28 posted on 01/17/2025 5:45:52 PM PST by KittyKares
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Obviously she resents her children, as they have “stolen” her freedom and independence. What a shallow, self-centered, whiny, spoiled little *****. I feel sorry for her children. And her husband. She resents him too. Their marriage is doomed.


31 posted on 01/17/2025 5:49:06 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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It probably comes as a surprise to these women (are we allowed to say that anymore?) have breasts that produce milk for babies. If they don’t like the natural order of the mammalian kingdom they can take it up with God.


32 posted on 01/17/2025 5:50:06 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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When it seemed like a lot of my customers had young, shy, extremely quiet Guatemalan girls raising their children, it seem to bother the feminist career wives when I would off handedly mention something about the irony of who their daughters female role model was.


36 posted on 01/17/2025 5:52:23 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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My wife wanted to work and I permitted it. It gave her something valuable to do and a means to earn some retirement money. After my first round of cancer in 1985, it was an even better idea. She didn't earn a huge income. Mine has always been about 7x more than she earned. I just did a W4 with single 0 because her income was always undertaxed due to the marriage penalty. I put my W2 into TurboTax and a nice fat refund appears. I put her W2 and most of the refund is gone. Some of it returns after processing property taxes. My wife has retired now, so doing taxes in 2025 will be an adventure. Her social security/pension for 2024. My salary and a few months of short term disability after the cancer surgery. The rental with $20,000 in repairs from a bad tenant who didn't pay rent.

I did ask my wife to stop working for a few years and pay attention to raising the kids. Our oldest son was insufficiently supervised at one daycare and returned home with a diaper full of rubber grapes. A kid in daycare is learning values from the daycare provider...some that may not comport with your own. It is better to raise them with your own good values and pursue a career after they are all attending school.

39 posted on 01/17/2025 5:57:10 PM PST by Myrddin
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