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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t understand the posters who are offended that the OP said her daughter as being a future SAHM as an option. Almost every other post on dcum is “DH is rich but we decided it’s best for our family to stay home.” That is the ideal so many women on here talk about, so why the issue with saying this life is an option for a girls future? [/quote]

Offended? No. It just shows where OP sees her kids. Her son? Carries her dreams and expectations. Her daughter? Eh who cares she can just pick up after some guy.

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Look I'm a working mom but to say being a SAHM is "picking up after some guy" is pretty stupid and...sexist. Value women's work and contributions no matter what sphere it's in. [/quote]

It's just interesting that she couldn't possibly imagine a future where the son became a stay-at-home father though. [/quote]

Because it’s really hard. A friend of ours did it and begged to never again. The people who were by meanest to him were all women. They didn’t let him into their mom groups (which I understand, because a lot of conversation involved things about their bodies or lactation). When his daughter was a toddler women would stop him on the street and ask her if he was kidnapping her. I would be supportive of a son who wanted to be at stay-at-home dad, but I would want him to go into it with his eyes wide open. In a way, this shows yet one more way that it’s harder to be male.[/quote]

I keep hearing stories about people saying this is why men can't be parents in public and yet never encountered that scenario ever. Also, who just asks a kidnapper if they're committing a federal crime?? You honestly think the kidnapper is going to stop and say "yes. I'm kidnapping this kid?!" [/quote]

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