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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you value a good nanny’s work?  And a great housekeeper?  And a home manager?  And a personal chef?  That’s the roughly job of a SAHP - man or woman.  [/quote]

I don't agree with this way of looking at it.  All WOH/WAH parents still have to do housekeeping, home managing, and cooking the meals.  Some people outsource a lot of that but that is not limited to working parents, SAH parents outsource, too, if they have the funds.

So what it really comes down to is the difference between taking care of your children full-time vs. having someone assist with childcare while you work, usually for some part of the day.  That's really the only difference with a SAHP.[/quote]

Right which is why it’s fair to say they contribute less to society than working parents.[/quote]

I don't think that is fair to say.  I'm betting we could list quite a number of jobs out there that we might agree contribute less to society than caretaking of children.  They make money doing them, yes, but contribute to society is a high bar, and I think care of children meets that bar.  I'm not saying working parents don't care for their children, they just outsource for more of the day than does a SAHP (because most SAHPs in non-pandemic times also have times they hire babysitters, send kids to school or preschool, send kids to the grandparents, etc.)  So for those additional hours that SAHPs take care of children, they are providing a service to society in the same way that other childcare workers who take care of other people's children do.[/quote]

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