More at Grandfather Family Income Report
Posted on 04/17/2006 5:10:26 AM PDT by IrishMike
A NEW breed of educated women has discovered the secret of a happy marriage — opting to stay at home instead of pursuing a career. The phenomenon, in which wives prefer their husbands to be the main breadwinner, has been identified by American sociologists and is now gaining a foothold in Britain. Unlike the housewives of the 1950s, who had little choice over rearing children and acting as homemaker, this generation of women is building on the advances of the feminist movement to determine their optimum lifestyle. The women are predominantly drawn from the middle classes and have young offspring. They regard themselves as “at-home mothers”, seeing their prime responsibility as bringing up the children rather than housekeeping.
They include women who have given up jobs altogether as well as those who have taken extended career breaks to be with their children throughout their upbringing.
According to research by academics at the University of Virginia, 52% of modern housewives describe themselves as “very happy” with their marriages compared with 41% of working women.
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YOU DID IT RIGHT!!!!!!
For the same reason that black people need "leaders" I guess -- namely the old totalitarian leftist social engineering paradigm.
Family is more important than $$$$
After my daughter graduated from college, he confided in me that she had watched me do the single parent career woman bit, and she thought it was not worth it. She decided to be a trophy wife, and she seems very happy. She has a daughter and is expecting. I suppose illegals do all of the grunt work at her house. I was worn out and disabled by 55, and alone. Climb the corporate ladder and sleep alone, as MODO has explained.
Are you sure you mean a "trophy wife"? She became the second, third, or even subsequent wife of a corporate executive who is 20 or 30 years her senior?
Sounds like you are doing something and enjoying it a lot.
Best wishes.
"Oh please. A women being free to be themselves is being a housewife? To instill in a young girl that the only thing that makes her "ladylike" is to aspire to do housework is as stupid as what the feminazis have been doing the past 40 years"
That's not what the article or post 6 said. What they said was that these wives were devoting their energy to raising children as *opposed* to the 50s stereotype of wife=dishwasher.
Your statement as it stands isn't false, but you're attacking a statement that the person you answered didn't make.
Anyway this is good news; if wives want to raise kids that means they're having kids, which means Eurabia may not be Europe's future after all.
Man, I am, Mike! I've got the best life! I hasn't always been so. I was born poor and got poorer. My father died when I was a kid. I worked my way through college etc. My saving grace was my wife (of Irish descent, by the way). It gets better and better and better!
Write a book.
Yes, she is the second wife of the veep of the co where they both worked. He is 15 years older than she, and they seem very happy and in love. In spite of my efforts, she is very materialistic and wanted everything first class. She is getting what she wanted. I guess it is an example of the old saw that it is as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor man.
My apologies - you really DID mean trophy wife! And you're well aware that the term is usuall a pejorative! :)
Somebody put a "y" on the end of "usuall" for me? Thanks.
And yes, I am making some assumptions here about your daughter's situation. The veep could have been a widower; divorced for years before meeting your daughter; the victim of an abusive wife; etc.
Let's just say I stand by my first statement, even if it doesn't apply in your daughter's case.
I had the ame reservations about the man before they were married. It does seem to be going well, though. If you see the two wives in the same room, they look almost identical. I don't know what broke up their marriage, but I do know there are lots of divorces, and I wouldn't want you to write me off because I left a bad man. In the end, it is my daughter's life, and she is firm about that.
My wife has been “Stay at home” for about ten years now. At first when we went places and people asked her what she did, she got some funny looks and even some put downs about “that being all she could do.” I stayed right by her side at a party, until I saw the tactic, and when they asked what she did, my response was, “Oh, she doesn’t have to work.” You should have seen the looks on the former catty working women’s faces, then they all started discussing what toys their salaries went for (boats, cars, etc) they decided they were all working to pay for toys mostly used by their husbands. It was and is priceless, we use that response still.
BTW, My wife graduated college as a Medical Technologist with honors, and is a member of the Association for Clinical Pathologists (ASCP).
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