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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ehh, young men these days are all about "being a provider" so women can "be in their feminine" but they still expect you to work and pay 50%. It's a bizarre facade. [/quote]

Sure is. [b]My daughter wants to marry a doctor.[/b]. but is worried because a lot of doctors want to marry doctors/similar She graduated with an Engineering degree from Yale and makes good money, but wants to be a SAHM and raise a lot of kids, but there aren’t a lot of guys happy about that.[/quote]

Bigger issue is that 55% of med school students are women...and that keeps trending higher every year.  I assume the med school women are also interested in marrying doctors.

Does your daughter bring a ton of family money to the table?  I know people with Ivy degrees that become SAHMs but only after it's clear their spouse has basically made it (made MD at an IBank or law firm partner or equivalent).

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Should she be aiming for med students or complete doctors? She'll be 24 in March.[/quote]

Wanting to marry specifically a doctor is naive and seems immature/fantasy driven.  Doctors actually often make bad spouses and have high rates of divorce.  If she wants a steady, reliable, high earning provider she should probably be looking at an engineer or accounting type and build wealth together by investing early  in real estate.  It’s great that she has a strong vision for her life but the truth is every family unit goes through lots of challenges and she should look more for shared values like hard work, ability to delay gratification and make sacrifices, financial carefulness, extended family closeness, values etc, none of which a ‘doctor’ is necessarily a proxy for.

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