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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This doesn't seem like musings.  It's you starting another lame WOHM vs SAHM debate.  Good for you that you love working out of the home, that you don't envy SAHMs and that you think working is the only way to contribute to society.  Clap, clap.

My parents were immigrants and they love America as do I.  It's because we have the CHOICE.  No one here is forced to stay veiled and at home. If we can afford to stay at home we have that choice.

You don't have to put down a SAHM by thinking she isn't a contributing member to society.  Your missing the point of the freedoms we have.  Rather than thinking you are doing some great service to the world by earning a paycheck you're missing that you have that choice to do so or to not do so.

[b]Working out of the home is not the privilege. The CHOICE is the privilege.[/b]

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Yup, right here is the entire "argument," such as it is. No other words necessary. [/quote]

It's not a *real* choice though, for many on DCUM. A real choice is when a woman is independently wealthy and doesn't have to make a financial or professional gamble to SAH. It seems to me that most of the women on DCUM who SAH do so because 1) their spouses worked really long hours/traveled frequently so it was too hard on the family not to have the wife SAH; 2) women were not able to negotiate a family-friendly work load (big law) after having young kids; 3) women earned too little to justify working only to break even with the high cost of child care. 
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The number one reason women in this area choose to stay home with their kids is because they know that having a parent at home is the best possible situation for everyone in the family, especially their kids.  Period.  This is as real and valid a choice as any, whether you agree or disagree.  [/quote]

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