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[quote=Anonymous]Somewhere around our third date my wife told me she had no problem working, but she really, really wanted to be a SAHM. I come from an immigrant household with a SAHM, she was raised in a upper middle class household with a SAHM and our views on the issue aligned.

My primary concern was having a parent that could focus attention on the kids. Not in a helicoptering kind of way but in a more intentional, firm kind of way.

Now that our kids are older, she uses the time to be involved at our kids' schools, keep herself in great shape, and run an orderly household (including full, wholesome meals which is really important to me as the child of a Hispanic mother). All in all, she worked for ten years after undergrad, including putting me through law school, and I'm fine with the way things have worked out.

A second income would be nice, but I'm biglaw and the way I see it, between the two of us, we have 336 hours in any given week and I'm already working about 20-25% of those hours.  I see no need to devote more of our family's time to paid work.

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