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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Unless you believe a woman WITHOUT children should be able to "choose" to not work for pay, your arguments about not working being a new form of feminism are BS."

"Taking care of children is a valuable and meaningful contribution to society. Pretending that it’s the same a vacation is very misogynistic."

My point is that adults need to adult. A core part of that means contributing to the household unit. Unlaunched 22-year-olds leisurely wake up at 9am and come up with fun ways to fill their day that may or may not enhance the life of the household's income generators. Those people are basically adult "roommates" who don't pay their share of the rent/mortgage/home maintenance. They usually sponge off the health and car insurance policies of the working adults in the household. A spouse has no business doing that IMO. You either work for pay, or you do things to support the income generating activities of the breadwinner. That could be making sure that they have zero things to worry about that aren't related to making money at work, like providing for all the needs of their children or keeping everything at home in tip-top shape.

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It is really up to the couple to decide this.  I have no issues with someone being just a "non working for pay" person in a couple.  If it makes the couple happy and everyone is okay with it, why not?  You truly don't know what someone is going thru.  They might have a hidden illness that makes daily life stressful and being "at home" helps them manage it. As long as the family is not on welfare it is really none of my business.

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