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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I think there is some jealous there.[/b] In the DC area, one partner has to be making a lot of money to enable the other to stay home and still maintain a nice lifestyle (nice house in a close in nabe, vacations, nice cars, pricey extracurricular activities for the kiddos, maybe private school, etc.)

To have an UMC lifestyle with a SAHP, the breadwinner has to be making 300-400k +.[/quote]

On my end its less jealous and more...disbelief. I was raised to be independent and to own my own financials. When I went into my marriage I was comfortably set in a career and had two properties free-and-clear. That only helped when we made future decisions together to buy our 'dream' home. It boggles my mind that some women will rely solely on another person's generosity to live their life.

It disturbs me even further when these same women, some of them friends, were die-hard Hillary fans and very much into telling their daughters that 'this will be the first woman president, someone to look up to, someone to emulate' and yet the closest rolemodel to those daughters completely opted out of a career. How can you tell your children to aspire to be the head of NASA or a president or a multi-millionaire CEO,[b] but you didn't bother to do anything yourself?[/q[/b]uote]

Wow!  So much wrong with this statement.  You don't think raising the next generation is "worth something?"  Whether or not you admit it raising children be it nanny or SAHP is work.  I often hear famous people say the greatest thing they have ever done is " raise a decent human being"?

Also, there is nothing hypocritical about telling their daughters to admire Hillary Clinton as a role model and yet not running for office themselves.  You can say this about any career really.  Your child is an artist and you have "no talent"  why wouldn't you be able to cheer them on to be an artist?  Or if you are terrible at math why wouldn't you encourage them to study harder at it so they can go into STEM fields?

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