What % of private school families have one SAH parent?

[Anonymous]

Curious if there’s a meaningful difference between public, parochial, and non-parochial private.

[Anonymous]

We have a SAHP and have kids in public and private, so I guess we cancel out the count.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if it's that black and white ... many moms at our private don't work full time in an office but they have part time side gigs like they design jewelry, dabble in photography or teach yoga. I certainly don't think their families depend on their income but it gives them a sense of purpose other than just staying home and raising kids.

[Anonymous]

I’m underemployed (very low part time hours) at the company I had been full-time at, then dropped to part time to support family needs, and now the company is not hiring into full time roles in the current environment. We aren’t desperate yet for an increased salary and I love the company, so I’m holding out for now, but if nothing changes in 2-3 years I’ll need to look elsewhere.

I’m sure we’re not the only family in a similar boat.

[Anonymous]

If you have either achieved or inherited generational wealth, middle class notions of “jobs” and “employment” aren’t relevant.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend whose kids go to private with financial aid and she commented that before sending her kids to private school, she didn't know any families with SAHMs (or dads for that matter) by choice. If you don't have inherited wealth or a spouse earning 500k+ it's hard to see how a family would give up a second income.

But there are a good number of SAHMs in the private school families. She said most moms still work, but maybe 20-30% either don't work or have more of a part time hobby/creative side gig that isn't really contributing much to family income.

[Anonymous]

Exactly 33%

[Anonymous]

I’m a working mom. My kids are now at public school but for awhile we’re at a Catholic parochial school. At the Catholic school the expectation almost seemed to be that the mom was either a stay at home mom or worked very very part time. I think my kids only had one classmate with a full time working mom.

Now that my kids are at public school I don’t think there are any stay at home moms in my daughter‘a class and only one that I know of in my son’s class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend whose kids go to private with financial aid and she commented that before sending her kids to private school, she didn't know any families with SAHMs (or dads for that matter) by choice. If you don't have inherited wealth or a spouse earning 500k+ it's hard to see how a family would give up a second income.

But there are a good number of SAHMs in the private school families. She said most moms still work, but maybe 20-30% either don't work or have more of a part time hobby/creative side gig that isn't really contributing much to family income.

There are a lot of middle class SAHMs if the husband is military.

[Anonymous]

We have one in private and one in public. There are more SAHMs at our public —more than half the families at our bus stop have a SAHM. There is also a decent number of state department, CIA, and military families with SAHMs.

The private seems to have a lot of families with two working professionals.

[Anonymous]

Pp here. Private school kid is in a fairly progressive, independent school (not Catholic).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a working mom. My kids are now at public school but for awhile we’re at a Catholic parochial school. At the Catholic school the expectation almost seemed to be that the mom was either a stay at home mom or worked very very part time. I think my kids only had one classmate with a full time working mom.

Now that my kids are at public school I don’t think there are any stay at home moms in my daughter‘a class and only one that I know of in my son’s class.

Our parochial definitely has a lot of stay at home parents (including at least one dad) but the extended day program is very convenient for families like ours with two jobs outside the home (and yes, stay-at-home-parent is a full time job).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if it's that black and white ... many moms at our private don't work full time in an office but they have part time side gigs like they design jewelry, dabble in photography or teach yoga. I certainly don't think their families depend on their income but it gives them a sense of purpose other than just staying home and raising kids.

That's a hobby, not a job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have either achieved or inherited generational wealth, middle class notions of “jobs” and “employment” aren’t relevant.

They are. Those people just don't have jobs. We typically refer to those people as bums.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you have either achieved or inherited generational wealth, middle class notions of “jobs” and “employment” aren’t relevant.

They are. Those people just don't have jobs. We typically refer to those people as bums.

A lot of people work very hard for our communities and do not recieve remuneration. They are hardly "bums."