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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Full time nanny with a stay at home mom.[/quote]

Yes, but this is the definition. Where I am if there are two kids and mom works then there are two Nannies. I’ve also seen variations of this- three kids, two Nannie’s, SAHM mom. [/quote]

I’m a sahm and had a ft nanny with 3 kids. This was not a big deal.

Working mom with multiple nannies does not signal UC to me at all. This signals mom works a lot. I feel UC moms don’t work a lot.

We live in an affluent neighborhood. Most of the moms don’t work. The husbands all must earn seven or eight figures. In many homes, both the husband and wife don’t seem to have real jobs.[/quote]

I don’t find SAHM mom as a definite indicator of UC. More and more I’m seeing women who have such big careers that it doesn’t make sense for them to stay home; is an entrepreneur, or has been able to secure a profitable WFH or PT arrangement. I think the new trophy wife has interesting work, control over their schedule and enough help to be able to still have hobbies/do fun activities with their kids while outsourcing housework. I encounter these women more and more now, and am impressed by how much they do and how well they do it![/quote]

I agree that this is the new definition of “trophy wife”.  My DH and I were actually just talking about this a few weeks ago.  We’ve been in several situations in the last year or two where a couple we know or have just met talks about the fact that the wife stays home with, kind of, embarrassment.  These are families with kids in school.  It definitely doesn’t seem to signal UMC anymore.  And I think if you’d asked me 10-15 years ago, when we were newly married, I would have said the opposite.  DH compared those couples’ telling us about their SAHM situation to being like telling people your grown up child was still living in your basement.  [/quote]

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