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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would they still fight for workforce accessibility/equality or [b]accept that stay at home mom is better[/b] than working a full time job and not seeing their kids grow up? Did it provide the happiness it promised?

Saw this question being asked and I know what I would choose[/quote]

Clueless premise. One-income families (e.g., father works, mother stays home) started disappearing in the late 70s, were in free-fall in the 80s, and gone by the 90s. The another 30 years went by. The corporations won.

https://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/[/quote]

Hate to break it to you but SAHMs are alive and well in higher education, higher income areas. My neighborhood and my sister's neighborhood are full of them, and we live several states apart. [/quote]

SAHM w 2-4 kids is common in the south where you sorority sister marry a frat guy who will work for his dad.

Not common on the east or west coast. [/quote]

Hahahaha. Says the poor. It's 100% alive and real among very well educated women who marry well. [/quote]

I didn’t see this as a majority nor large minority when we lived and worked in Boston, NYC nor Wash DC.

Only in Dallas.

And I work in tech so never see this in The Bay Area either.

Maybe we’re defining well educated differently or running in different u grad and grad circles, as well as different DC area neighborhoods, schools and kid ECs entirely.   [/quote]

Agree. SAHM w/multiple degrees from elite schools. We are out there but not common. [/quote]

I don’t know how this turned into an “elite degree” contest. I am one of the early posters and college-educated SAHM’s in the $250k+ household income level are still very very common. Definitely until the youngest starts kindergarten and then some do go back, but usually part-time or flexible. Maybe this is less common among rocket scientists, I don’t know. I live in the suburbs, so maybe it’s a function of that too, but many many families who have the means to make this choice, are.  [/quote]

It's not a contest. We are just sharing our various experiences within our own peer groups.

It's not that common in my circles. &lt;10% 
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No one at NIH or Leidos or other scientific research team places with PhDs or masters tapped out when they had kids. [/quote]

This has also been my experience

JD/MBA/Masters in the liberal arts - they drop out of the work force to be SAHM and constantly bring up their elite educations.

PhDs (any subject) and Masters in hard sciences/econ/engineering - not as much.

I know a lot of SAHMs who had careers before having babies who haven’t gone back once all the kids are in elementary school- I get it - I’ve got an elementary school aged kid, and it was easier working an insane job when she was little.

If I can swing it financially, I’d like to retire by the time my kid hits high school and consult on the side.  [b]But I sure as hell would
have been miserable being a SAHM to my kid when he was a baby. [/b][/quote]

Its interesting how different people are. SAH at home with my babies/toddlers was literally the pleasure of my life. It meant everything to me and I think I might have been suicidal if I had been forced to leave them. [/quote]

Well it's good thing you have a choice right?. I also hope you have developed an identity outside of #mom.because babies and toddlers grow up and don't always want you around [/quote]

God this thread is vile. [/quote]

It's the truth. Children grow up. They are not your besties.[/quote]

What a weird comment...[/quote]

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