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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work full-time but the idea that SAHMs are socially stunted and unable to socialize is patently ridiculous. I am good friends with several SAHMs and of course they go out and have full social lives. I don't know a single one that fits the description of this limited woman under her husband's thumb. Also, most of them are married to good men who do their part of childrearing.

Similarly, of course there are many working parents who work flexibly, don't work crazy hours, share childcare evenly, have time to volunteer in classrooms and supervise homework, have very close relationships with their kids, etc.

Honestly sometimes I wonder how some of you DCUM posters manage to raise children, given how limited, rigid, and inflexible your world views are.[/quote]

You don't know any SAHMs whose husbands aren't involved parents?  Honestly, that's really surprising.[/quote]

That is exactly opposite of what I wrote, not sure how you got that. I know many SAHMs with involved husbands. [/quote]

PP here. Whoops, I am an idiot and misread. But to answer your question, I don't know many SAHMs with uninvolved husbands.

I don't think good parenting is correlated at all to SAHM or working, tbh.[/quote]

I agree.  I also don't think that being on "kid duty" while the SAHM is off on a girls' weekend necessarily makes a husband and "involved parent".  It simply means that it is his turn to watch the kids.  When he wants to go fishing with his buddies, his wife will be on child duty.  For all you know, they could both be planting the kids in front of the t.v. with a bag of chips when it's their time for "kid duty".

Personally, the idea of taking separate vacations has never really appealed to me.  Maybe if that had been a priority for us we would have found a way to make it happen.

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