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[quote=Anonymous]"Where do you live? 95% of the women I know work."

I started a thread a couple of months back and said the same thing. People define what it means to be a SAHM differently. Lots of women claim to be both (SAHM and WOH) because they went back to work after their DCs were in school or can't reenter FT because their DC has a severe disability that requires too much time off for appointments and extremely expensive childcare. Then there are the ones who wish they could be a SAHM but had to work for financial reasons. They also consider themselves SAHMs. Unless you live in a small bubble with the wives of the Commanders and the socialites featured in the About Town section of Washingtonian Magazine, most women around here have jobs. Or, if you live among people who are low ranked military or otherwise lower income and the moms aren't capable of ever earning more than the cheapest unlicensed in-home daycare. To me, a SAHM never "needs" to go back to any workplace because her husband is making enough money to cover all their needs and wants, even after her kids are away at college.

I happen to know quite a few dual-high income young couples with toddlers through family. Only one of them is sort of a SAHM (she's not earning an income currently) but she's finishing the practicum part of a graduate degree that will enable her to earn more than her husband when she finishes in two years. Today's young men aren't looking for women like OP and would not fit in with their peer group if they were. [/quote]

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