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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ppl here act like it’s this huge choice between slaving away at 80 hrs a week while kids are shipped off to daycare vs staying at home. In real life it is much more blurred, people leave and re enter the workforce, people work part time, people lean out and choose easier jobs. Sometimes both spouses lean out.  And more and more ppl WAH and take flex time so it’s hard to tell who is a SAHP unless you know them or their routine. [/quote]

It's probably because it's really expensive to live in the DC area (or any coastal city). So the people who do SAH - most likely have husbands who make a LOT of money, like 500k +. If you're making that kind of coin, you have golden handcuffs on. [/quote]

Not all sahp are wealthy. Some cannot afford daycare and their families squeak by on one income. Even here in DC. [/quote]

Correct. The 500k plus crowd is very small among SAHMs, even here. That poster is mistaken. There are plenty of families who try to make it on one salary that is low to moderate because the mom's salary would be washed out by the cost of daycare. I work at a fairly big employer and I often see women who are junior admin assistant types dropping out of the workforce to be SAHMs--not because their husband earns a lot--but because their salary would be washed out by daycare.

Another group of SAHMs around here try to get by on one military salary because of the childcare challeneges invovled when their husband is deployed and with frequent short-notice moves.

If anything, the educated wives of the 500k plus crowd often has the resources to have the best of both worlds and they lean out but continue to work either a really "fun" job with good hours, or where they can come back P/T after leave. At one time, I worked at a very "high gloss" nonprofit, the kind where these people can work a flex schedule that is less than 40 a week but still have hte "prestige" of working among other ivy grads. My team included the wife of a biglaw partner the wife of someone who was a member of congress at the time.

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