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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who cares what you do but call it what it is. If your kids are grown you are not a SAHM. You just don’t work.[/quote]

I think raising children and running household is hard work and after two decades of it, a retirement is as okay as anyone else retiring after some other sort of work. If you can afford it, all the power to you. If you can afford it, live a little before aging limits or end you.[/quote]

No, then I become a stay at home wife. Yes, there won’t be as much to do but there is still work to be done. And like others have said, after raising children for two decades, don’t I deserve a break/ retirement as well? After all.[b] I am on duty 24/7, 7 days a week, no vacations. I have taken exactly 7 nights away from my family in the last 16 years.[/b] One weekend away with a friend, and a few nights here and there with my parents. I deserve a break at the end of this just as much as anyone else! [/quote]

Basically all parents do that. The only time I’m not with my kids is when they’re in school, and then I’m working. I still have to do all of the 24/7 stuff. Sure, you deserve a break, but that level of time commitment is not unique to SAHP.[/quote]

No all parents do not do it.  SAHPs create home to be a safe place for everyone in the family and that is a psychological benefit for everyone. SAHPs are not punting off the care of their family members to others.  The truth of how hallow and miserable the claim of "We do all the parenting + our paid work"  was when women left their jobs in droves during pandemic because they did not have other low paid WOHMs to take care of their children.  
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