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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re not just losing out on your wife’s take home pay if she doesn’t work - you’re also missing her 401k contributions, opportunity loss, benefits (although they vary by position).

It’s also not “her job” to pay for daycare. It should be considered that it comes proportionally out of each of your paychecks. You are (newsflash!) also responsible for your child’s care. [/quote]

I view it as coming out of her paycheck because the two are mutually exclusive (sort of). If she works, we pay for daycare. If she doesn’t work, we don’t pay for daycare. We don’t have the option to not have me work, as I make 6x as much. It’s just basic math/logic[/quote]
If you feel so strongly against having the baby in daycare that you would torpedo her desire to be able to have a career, then you should be equally or more willing to pay for a nanny out of “your” 250k, without any resentment or feeling of martyrdom. Look into a nanny share, that’s less expensive. But news flash - your way of thinking is super unhelpful. You are a family unit. Your expenses are shared expenses. You are talking about the partner you are building your life with and the person you love most in the world, remember? She’s not just one of an array of childcare staffing options that you’re weighing against each other for cost/quality.
- SAHM[/quote]

I love how this PP phrased it.[/quote]

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