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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nothing.  I choose not to work but if I did, I would still have to cook, clean, drive, bathe the kids, etc.  the difference is I have far more time which I appreciate.  If anything you compare it to a nanny who makes 1/3 of that. V[/quote]

That's just it.  There is nothing tangible that a SAHM does that is any different from any other parent.  Everyone has to chaueffer their kids around, everyone has to go grocery shopping, everyone has to clean their house everyone has to make sure their young children are supervised.

The benefits of a SAHM are mostly intangible and very difficult to quanitfy economically.  It's easy to quatify the 0-5 age day care because if a parent doesn't do it, then you have to pay someone else.  And if one parent travels a lot or is out of the home a lot, then again, it's the supervision of the children that has to be done and can be quantified.  The other stuff....everyone has to do it--SAHM and WOHP.[/quote]

You have to pay someone else to do it until the kid is a  teen -- unless you are ok with a latchkey kid who stays at home alone on school holidays, summer vacation, inservice days, snow days, and every school day between 3-5 or so.[/quote]

This used to be fairly normal for most kids ages 13 and up. I don't get why it gives people the vapors these days, assuming the kid is ready.[/quote]

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