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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no monetary equivalent for raising your own children. The pay is not in dollars.[/quote]

That's what I was thinking, however I probably would have said it in a less confrontation way.  My DH and I were not willing to put our kids in daycare or leave them with a nanny for 9 hours a day.  There is no amount of money that anyone could have paid me that would have changed that.  Of course we saved money by not using child care and a housekeeper.  But that's not where my value as a SAHM was.  My value was in simply  being fully present with my children when they were young.   I could never put a price on that.[/quote]

My value is being able to demonstrate to my children what a professional, educated working female looks like.  To each their own, but drop the morale superiority.[/quote]

Right.  Which I why I clearly stated that those were things that WE valued.  You cannot place a monetary value on something like this because not everyone is going to see the value.  I can understand why you work.  It's not difficult for me to see the value of having a mother who works outside the home.  It baffles me that you can't see the value of a SAHM.  And for what it's worth, kids can learn what a "professional, educated working female looks like" even if their own mother chose to SAH.  My daughter finished her Masters Degree two years ago and has been working full time since she graduated from college.  Clearly my staying at home when she was a baby didn't stunt her intellectual growth too much.[/quote]

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