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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not bashing SAHM but I wonder sometimes why any woman would want to be so vulnerable to be in the position of being a SAHM. If you have skills and 10yrs go by you will have to fight tooth and nail to get them back and get back out there. Marriages end and they end often so why throw all your eggs in one basket and hope for the best. Women with children need to be able to fend for themselves with or with out a husband/boyfriend and being a SAHM is a very vulnerable position to be in even if wealthy.[/quote]

I think a lot of it depends on the job. I have friends who are teachers who worked for several years pre-kids, then took 5-10 years off, and so far have been able to reenter the work force.

I have friends who were nurses, and they've also been able to reenter the work force, although often after some additional education and normally starting part time working non-optimal shifts first.

I work in technology, and my friends who opted out of the work force while their children were little have not had the same success rate at reentry. If I took time off to be a SAHM, I think I'd need to retrain &/or change careers to get back in. Some women aren't faced with that prospect. And others are just apparently superbly confident that nothing catastrophic will happen.[/quote]

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