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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with a PP who said that the "debate" is really not something related to the real life experiences of 99% of families. And if you add in the need for the potential SAHM to have family money or having hit the Lotto jackpot, it's even closer to zero.

The problem comes when somebody doesn't do the math and isn't willing to face the reality that you can't actually live a UMC life on one UMC salary in a major city and put 3 kids through college, especially if you didn't come from money and have to make your own down payment on a house and pay off student loans.

The other problem comes when things fall apart and the woman then claims she gave up her career to be a SAHM. 7/10 the women who agree to be a SAHM were NEVER going to earn enough money to support themselves at the level that their high earning spouse did.[b] There just aren't that many women who enter marriage with the same earning power as their husband. I have a law degree from a T14 law school. I don't think even one of the male students in my class married a woman with the potential to earn what he could. The wives were all artists, school teachers, non-profit administrators, or just had random office assistant jobs. I only know of one marriage between two law students.[/b] [/quote]

This is fascinating to me. Currently women are a slight majority of law and medical school graduates. Looking at T20 law schools, they are still a slight majority at most schools.  Who these women marrying? Why not their classmates? [/quote]

I don't know why PP's law school is like that. I'm married to a man I met in CivPro. Tons of my classmates married each other, or they married their college boyfriend/girlfriend who they were already dating.[/quote]

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