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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m in awe of my classmates from college and medical school. Many of them are now partners at law firms married to a physician or another high level professional. I guess jobs now are more flexible as some have over 3 kids. I’m estimating their joint incomes to be 500-800k across the board. Growing up, it seemed that being a SAHM with high earner dad was high status/ privileged but now it’s having now having a mom as a law partner / dad surgeon with tons of money in your 529k. I bet this means that young men now are looking to marry someone who can put them into that next tax bracket vs sometime we can care for the kids. [/quote]

Hard to say.  I have a very flexible, work-from-whenever job, so I'm able to do a lot of the parenting, but still need a nanny because I do have some calls after school hours, my spouse travels for work, and my son still resents that I'm not a SAHM like most of his friends' moms.  He's also getting sucked into the hyper-masculinity stuff that is all over social media and popular with his friends.  So his generation regresses to more traditional gender roles, and he ends up resentful that he has to make all the money, and it's stressful... [/quote]

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