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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you value a good nanny’s work?  And a great housekeeper?  And a home manager?  And a personal chef?  That’s the roughly job of a SAHP - man or woman.  [/quote]

I don't agree with this way of looking at it.  All WOH/WAH parents still have to do housekeeping, home managing, and cooking the meals.  Some people outsource a lot of that but that is not limited to working parents, SAH parents outsource, too, if they have the funds.

So what it really comes down to is the difference between taking care of your children full-time vs. having someone assist with childcare while you work, usually for some part of the day.  That's really the only difference with a SAHP.[/quote]

Right which is why it’s fair to say they contribute less to society than working parents.[/quote]

i.e. the work of raising children and running households, unpaid labor collectively done by women throughout the course of history, has contributed less to society than the paid labor or specialized efforts of men. That's what you're really saying here, pp. You're saying that women aren't as valuable unless they take on roles traditionally associated with men. It's not a WOHM vs. SAHM debate at all.[/quote]

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