Professional couples are on the rise, but it’s not increasing income inequality

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

I’m a sahm. My Dh earns seven figures. We don’t have any arguments about money and I make the majority of the decisions about the kids.

Don’t you have to check with your ex about your kids? Or is there no dad at all???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

I’m a sahm. My Dh earns seven figures. We don’t have any arguments about money and I make the majority of the decisions about the kids.

Don’t you have to check with your ex about your kids? Or is there no dad at all???

Whose the daddy? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous]

I love how those nuts bring teen pregnancy rates in discussion. Teen pregnancy rates are at a historic lows and represent a minuscule number of live births. I'm more concerned about the SAH, religious breeders who keep popping tons of kids until their uterus is at their knees. Those are the problem, not successful single moms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

Well, I certainly don't want the tragic life of raising a kid in a single family. I am in a happy marriage with a man who is a great dad. I could never imagine depriving my child of his dad. I also have the security that if some thing happens to me, my children still have my husband. Maybe you chose a loser to father your child.

Your anecdata about financial issues with a partner speaks volumes about the kind of family you were raised in. Sorry, but many people were not raised in dysfunctional families.

You are such an idiot. My mom's father was killed in the war while my grandmother was pregnant. My classmate died of leukemia and left 2 kids behind. Better to be a single mom than have a loser mom like you.

Were they married at that time? One baby mama or baby daddy or multiples? Yeah, this sucks. But not they are not single mothers. They are widowed mothers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love how those nuts bring teen pregnancy rates in discussion. Teen pregnancy rates are at a historic lows and represent a minuscule number of live births. I'm more concerned about the SAH, religious breeders who keep popping tons of kids until their uterus is at their knees. Those are the problem, not successful single moms.

Why do these successful single women need to pop out a kid at all? Why not be happy and childless? Why not be happy with their career? Why choose loser men to have children with?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand the point of this article. The thesis seems to be that it’s not that men used to prefer wives with lower income jobs - it’s just that they didn’t have enough professional women around to marry. Okay, so?

+1 Also seems to indicate that income inequality in a relationship is good? Which seems not right to me? Do single parents even come up/why are we talking about that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

Well, I certainly don't want the tragic life of raising a kid in a single family. I am in a happy marriage with a man who is a great dad. I could never imagine depriving my child of his dad. I also have the security that if some thing happens to me, my children still have my husband. Maybe you chose a loser to father your child.

Your anecdata about financial issues with a partner speaks volumes about the kind of family you were raised in. Sorry, but many people were not raised in dysfunctional families.

You are such an idiot. My mom's father was killed in the war while my grandmother was pregnant. My classmate died of leukemia and left 2 kids behind. Better to be a single mom than have a loser mom like you.

Were they married at that time? One baby mama or baby daddy or multiples? Yeah, this sucks. But not they are not single mothers. They are widowed mothers.

Widow moms are single mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love how those nuts bring teen pregnancy rates in discussion. Teen pregnancy rates are at a historic lows and represent a minuscule number of live births. I'm more concerned about the SAH, religious breeders who keep popping tons of kids until their uterus is at their knees. Those are the problem, not successful single moms.

Why do these successful single women need to pop out a kid at all? Why not be happy and childless? Why not be happy with their career? Why choose loser men to have children with?

Because they want to and can support them. They don't need to ask your permission to have a child. I'm European and we think that having more than 2 is the ultimate trash, but I'm not force sterilizing the dumb breeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

I live in McLean and I never run into women like you.

Because you are old and live in one of those old ranchers. There are plenty of successful, single moms at Longfellow making this or more. For those who can't imagine a woman in her 30s making a high salary, you need to leave Woodbridge more. A 25 year old computer system engineer makes around 200K. A lawyer makes at least 300K. I'm a fed at a fin agency and I make over 200K. My single friend at Amazon makes 400. My H is a VP of sales in biotech and his top sales person is a woman in Atlanta making 600K.

+1 37 Y/O mom making 400k+ in tech sales here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

You’re quoting me. I make far more than you (biglaw) and also have a happy marriage to a man who makes even more.

I don’t think my income makes me special but since you seem to think yours does…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

You’re quoting me. I make far more than you (biglaw) and also have a happy marriage to a man who makes even more.

I don’t think my income makes me special but since you seem to think yours does…

Well lawyers have the highest rates of divorce, suicide, any addiction of any profession - so we have to take what you say with several grains of salt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

Well, I certainly don't want the tragic life of raising a kid in a single family. I am in a happy marriage with a man who is a great dad. I could never imagine depriving my child of his dad. I also have the security that if some thing happens to me, my children still have my husband. Maybe you chose a loser to father your child.

Your anecdata about financial issues with a partner speaks volumes about the kind of family you were raised in. Sorry, but many people were not raised in dysfunctional families.

I'm a NP with no opinion yet on the actual topic at hand, but I found this reply really toxic and needlessly mean. It's like you tried to cram as many hurtful barbs as you could towards the pp in one paragraph, which says a lot about you and what you are putting out into the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

Well, I certainly don't want the tragic life of raising a kid in a single family. I am in a happy marriage with a man who is a great dad. I could never imagine depriving my child of his dad. I also have the security that if some thing happens to me, my children still have my husband. Maybe you chose a loser to father your child.

Your anecdata about financial issues with a partner speaks volumes about the kind of family you were raised in. Sorry, but many people were not raised in dysfunctional families.

You are such an idiot. My mom's father was killed in the war while my grandmother was pregnant. My classmate died of leukemia and left 2 kids behind. Better to be a single mom than have a loser mom like you.

+1 My dad died at age 25 of lymphoma (he was a healthy athlete and a lawyer), and my mom and I were on our own until she remarried. Your comments are dark and negative and you should examine why you hang out on the blame and judgement end of the emotional scale instead of moving up. I wonder what kind of abusive home you came from to intentionally try to hurt others this way. Probably a pretty mean one, hurt people hurt people and all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What a bizarre final comment you make about marriage. How does being alone help women??

Well, as a single mom making $300, I can guarantee I have far less arguments about how I’m spending my money or child raising decisions than 99.9% of married people. (Not, op).

You’re quoting me. I make far more than you (biglaw) and also have a happy marriage to a man who makes even more.

I don’t think my income makes me special but since you seem to think yours does…

You're not, as you failed reading comprehension. The OP's point was about a single mom having less conflict, as she's the sole decision maker and she doesn't need a second income to raise her child. It is not about how much you make. If your H is an a** making a million and you nedd to crawl and beg to get a pair of shoes or piano lessons for your child, the HHI is irrelevant. Some husbands use the earnings as a power and dominance tool. Single, self sufficient moms don't have this headache.

[Anonymous]

Waa! Waa! I am a victim. But others are just pretending to be happy! Waaa!!