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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only person that should be looking out for SAHMs is their husband/wife.  The tax payer should not be on the hook for an able bodied person who has decided they would prefer to stay home.[/quote]

Exactly![/quote]

But you miss the point. Any man or woman serving as a full-time caregiver of very young children, is in fact working and quite hard at that. Any man or woman who cares for a disabled or terminally ill family member is working really really hard.

The posters here only conjure up the image of the SAHM with a rich husband, but the truth is many women make this decision due to lack of choices and support. They are fully dependent on their husbands and for all intents and purposes unemployable or relegated to low wage jobs.

I think we need to recognize the significant value their labor adds, that they are critical workers, that this is critical work. The current system is terrible for women; their choices are to not have children or do two jobs (out and in home) while still spending little quality time with kids or SAH and be marginalized.

We need to recognize the essential work of raising children, care for the sick, disabled and elderly. This can no longer be viewed as volunteer work, it is essential work.[/quote]

Nobody thinks it’s easy. We realize it’s hard.

But it isn’t something meant to draw a paycheck.

And, perhaps more people should opt not to have kids or fewer kids?

NPR had some expert on a million years ago talking about how Americans go about this all wrong. In short: they suggested families would be better off (and women, specifically) if they married and has babies much younger and back to back, and then reentered the workforce once their kid or second of two kids went off to preschool. That way, they would still have time to invest in a career.

They also included higher earners, explaining how you could still go back to school and catch up if you had a baby in your early/mid 20s.

The expert pointed to all kinds of data. It makes sense. [/quote]

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