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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"However, one reason why this is NOT the 50s is that the expectation that one salary (whether a man or a woman's) is enough to provide for a middle class existence is no longer valid for most of us. While the top 1 percent have gotten fabulously rich in the past 30 years, real wages and standard of living has stayed flat or dropped for most workers, while the relative cost of education, childcare, and other stuff has gone way up. One mid range salary used to cut it, now it doesn't. A rising tide in this case has lifted a few boats really really high, but the rest of the boats have started to sink...."

But we're still stuck in the '50s, because I get criticized, sometimes to my face, for my choice to continue to WOH even though my husband makes over $200,000 a year. I work not because I have to, but because I have the education, drive and legal right to work rather than SAH and drink in the afternoons. 
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Good for you!!  You have a right to make whatever choice makes you and your family the happiest!  But WHY, in the same breath that you defend your right, do you have to turn around and insult SAHs?  I don't drink! What a terrible generalization.  This is exactly what I am talking about! [/quote]

I re-read my post, and realize why you took it that way. My mother was a SAHM who was happy until her children got older, and then she began drinking in the afternoons. I do NOT think SAH = alcoholism.  I might well drink more than is good for me if I SAH though.[/quote]

yeah.. right.

and if SAH moms drink and are lazy, then what about WOH moms?
are they all selfish, feed their kids fast food, and their kids are all destined to have issues when older?

yes, we can all play this game. [/quote]

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