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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Assuming everyone on dcum is of the professional working class, the question should actually be flipped: what’s the cost of not working?

Not arguing that upper middle class educated women shouldn’t be SAH, but there is a huge financial loss when they do make that decision. There is also the risk they take in trusting that their spouse will always be there to support them financially. For example, you SAH for ten years and then Dh wants a divorce, no 401k of your own, no marketable skillset except for cleaning and wiping butts… Eeek [/quote]
.the cost is missing out on your kid's childhood, spending little time with them, having someone else instill their values into your kid. [/quote]

What?! Do you have kids? 2 year olds to play outside with a ball, play in the dirt, poop, eat and sleep. It's not like you teach Kant's value theory to a 2 year old. How can you miss on their childhood when they should be in preschool anyway starting at 3? Developmentally,  it makes no sense. [/quote]

You really have no clue about how influential early caregivers are! Literally the very foundation of a person is formed during those early years. Things like how you deal with adversity, temperament, language, comfortable being outdoors etc etc. You must have outsourced or else you wouldn’t have asked this.[/quote]

So your husband outsourced this to you, or that's okay because he sleeps with you so you know his values?[/quote]

And then we have 80 pages on that thread about why women are unhappy in their marriage, and over and over again, is about men not taking care of the kids, not lifting a finger in the house, not knowing who the kids' dentist is etc. etc. [/quote]

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