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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband is sitting on tens of millions of family wealth and himself makes 300K+ a year. My family are first generation immigrants so their wealth isn't as large but it ain't shabby either. I make 250K a year. Neither of us are interested in leaving our professions which we are lucky to have and love. We have one child whom we adore and are debating another (because we have no family in the area and it's tough).  We share childcare and household duties equally.

What you describe is not a great choice for most women (those who can't actually choose, even if appears they willingly gave up their professional lives). The women who opt for this "life of luxury" will soon realize that something is missing in their lives, that they will not be able to develop themselves fully as people. Perhaps some will, but not everyone is cut out to be Martha Steward (just like not everyone is cut out to be a pilot, engineer, lawyer, artist). Staying at home and supporting a husband (let alone taking care of kids or managing a household) is no walk in the park, don't be fooled. My guess is many of these women were coerced in some subtle and not so subtle ways into that role, and many will end up feeling like the women of Mad Men.  (Again, some will really find themselves in homemaking as a calling, but many many more will not.)

Feminism has a long way to go, until we don't discuss staying home with a rich husband as a life of luxury. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta get to work.[/quote]

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Pathetic.

This is asinine, on a lot of levels.  But the primary one is you assume everyone thinks like you, and believes that slaving away for a wage is the life one should live.

Realize that you can't even see past your own point of view enough to appreciate that there are many people out there like us, rich, middle class, and poor, who would love *more time* to ourselves and less time **working.** And that this is not "anti-feminist."

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