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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the person above:  where I live, there are a lot of older boomer women who have literally never worked a day in their lives.  they spend their days going to bible studies and out to eat, swimming at the y and bragging about their grandchildren.  I had never read an obituary before for someone who had never worked.  They are strange.

So yes, I do think it's wrong that the government provides free healthcare to women who have never worked a day in their lives, while children go without.  I don't buy the argument that everything every boomer has is because they earned it, and that they have earned so much more than the rest of us.

and suggesting that since they suffered we should suffer to sounds a bit like those people that try to justify fraternity hazings.  Just make the system better.  don't think that because you put up with it, we should put up with it too. [/quote]

[b]How is that different from wealthy Millennial women who don't work because their husbands make a great deal of money.[/b] They do exist all across the affluent spectrum of DC.

I must say your post reeks of jealousy. I can read between the lines. Which is funny given that swimming at the Y and going to Bible studies is very middle class, not affluent. And I'm sure there's a regional factor at play, especially if in the South.

And when you say you have never read an obituary before of someone who'd never worked,[b] I find it surprising given it was the *norm* for middle class women not to work until the 70s and even in my 80s-90s childhood, a good percentage, typically around 25% if not a bit more, of married women with children didn't work.[/b] [/quote]

+1  
None of the college educated moms I knew growing up worked until they got divorced.  
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If you look into the history of social security, when it was enacted there were a lot of destitute elderly women who basically relied on their families for support. Men used to die much earlier and women couldn't work (my grandma was fired from being an accountant in the 1950s when she got pregnant and never again could get hired once they knew she was married and had kids).

But now??? I'm angry that women who don't work are eligible for half their husband's social security. I understand that they'll get his SS when he dies, but why should they get anything that they didn't put into. Working 40 quarters isn't much. If you didn't need money to survive on when you were working age, why should you need more when you're older? [/quote]

I think you don't understand what the social contract was in the near past.  I grew up in a small town, and no woman I knew who had no children or grown children worked.  I can think of two of these women who taught for a year because the school system found it self suddenly was caught short and hired them to fill in the gap. But that is it.

Basically, women took care of the home and men worked outside the home.  In our particular small, town, this applied across all classes--no hired help from the less well off, for example.  It was just not a thing.[/quote]

OK but it's not a thing now. SAHMs are making the choice to stay home. It's very valid, but I don't think everyone else should fund their SS. If you don't need money to work, you don't need money to retire on. [/quote]

I'm a working parent, but find it disheartening that caretaking kids/elderly parents and a home is still so undervalued in our society.  And there are many moms that choose to SAH because the costs of quality childcare are equal to or more than what they make.  Maybe in your circle it's all rich families that have a SAHP but that is not the case for many.

Also, times HAVE changed- most SAHMs I know in my generation (Gen-X) worked for a few years before having kids, it's not like they went straight from HS/college to being a SAHM.  [/quote]

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