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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think many of you are equating income to power, and I just don’t see that in my family, at least. Power in what way? To make decisions? No. That’s not how it works. Usually the SAH parent makes most of the decisions. [/quote]

OP. Actually one of the reasons I posted was because a friend who’s a SAHM recently told me she wanted a second kid but her husband didn’t so they didn’t have one. Seems like she’s pretty sad about it. I don’t know exactly how it went down but I can imagine her husband thinking he has the final say because he makes money? Not sure. [/quote]

I don’t think it’s unusual for people to not completely agree on the number of children, and for the person who wanted more to be sad about it.  I don’t think it  has anything to do with the finances of it.  I do think that a lot of women who want to be SAHMs really do enjoy babies and little kids and being part of that mother-child dyad.  If her child is getting older than four or five, your friend might just be sad that this part of her life is over.  [/quote]

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