| Preschool and elementary school teachers. |
Absolutely not true!! |
They make pretty good mothers, IMHO. |
Some do, but not all. Don't generalize. It's a misconception. |
He wouldn't take care of your kids in the event of your untimely death. He would find a younger model to care for his poor motherless babes and she would finish raising them. |
Fail. Hasidic women work their modestly-covered asses off so their husbands can study Torah all day long. |
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Spend a year or two in Southeast Asia. If you have a top law school JD or a top MBA under your belt even better. If you don't, get admitted to one before you go and defer. Failing that, lie. You will do well. Plenty of nice girls there would be happy to sign on to that gravy train and stay home and raise kids.
Downside is she may park her whole extended family in your house and suddenly that 5 bdr in Chevy Chase isn't so big. |
| Foreign brides! Duh! |
What a beautiful thing to say about your mom. I scrolled down a bit - so like DCUM to rip something like this to shreds. Notice how the big law guy who mentioned how much he appreciates his SAHM wife was completely ignored. |
| ^^if you've got school-age kids and "household staff" you're not working like a big law partner. No shame in that. Nice work if you can get it. But be real. |
this whole topic is sexist, but it seems that is the way these women want it, different roles based on sex. i see no comments about dads that stay at home, only females. I hope my daughter does not grow up like these women. |
Why do you make this a competition? - saying a SAHM is not like working at Big Law and admonishing to "be real". The fact that someone is "not working like a biglaw partner" doesn't mean that they are not working hard and not making a valuable contribution. Would you be less harsh if the wife didn't SAHM but was a librarian or a pre-school teacher? Are those professions automatically to be devalued because they are "not working like a biglaw partner"? My SAHM still "worked" when the kids were school-age. She worked from 6:30-8:30, getting us up, packing lunches, driving school carpool. Then from 9-2:30 she was "free" after the housework was done if no one was sick or had medical appointments. Then she worked again from 2:30 to 10ish. That's more than an 8 hour day. But, don't forget the weekends, when she was often on again, taking the kids to sports games, extra-curricular lessons, tutoring, etc. You might not feel this is "work" because it is not paid for by an external 3rd party, in fact not paid at all, or some of it can be outsourced and men and women can do this work (although in this SAHM scenario, the woman is doing the father's unpaid half of family work as well so he can devote more time to lucrative paid work - not a bad strategy if the lawyer bills 500-750/hr or more as many DC BigLaw do). But the fact that it is unpaid or easy or done by everyone doesn't mean it's not work. It does everyone a disservice to diminish this work, because we all have to deal with it, even if some of us choose to do it ourselves and others of us choose to deal with it by outsourcing. |
Go away, troll. You're probably 50 and live in mom's basement. You never had a date, much less the means to support a SAH partner. In the DMV, the average age for a first marriage is 29, so OP, keep looking. Also, get some maturity and work experience. Grow and experience life. Marry a peer who shares your values and has equal education, work, experience and dreams because then you have a better chance of making it work. SAH partners make heavy sacrifices, especially given the lack of respect we get from morons like PP here, so expect to give your SAH partner -- if you're lucky enough to find one -- lots of love, respect, support and willingness to coparent. "Housewife" is an outdated sexist concept. A SAH parent can be male or female, straight, gay or fluid. A SAH parent is not a slave to serve as maid, cook, valet and chauffeur, but is a parent trying to nurture kids full time while maintaining a (usually very active) home. Losers like PP are unworthy of such partners -- or any at all. OP, if you want to be worthy of marrying someone who will stay at home to parent your children full time, make your way in the world and gain enlightenment and compassion. Then, you'll find somebody truly compatible. Good luck! |
Girls are females under age16, you chauvinistic cretin. Thankfully, you will find it next to impossible to find a grown woman who will give you a 222nd thought. PIG! |
| 2nd thought not 222nd.^^ |