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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am already a SAHM but this has definitely quashed any thoughts I may have had of returning to work any time soon. My kids are early elementary and DH and I have been very thankful I’m not juggling working at home like he is.[/quote]

My husband and I both work. When we have “recess” daddy goes out and plays basketball with them and we alternate  making lunch etc. When they need help they ask us both - is anyone on call or in a meeting?

In this house we prioritize equality. And [b]I’m raising sons who won’t expect their mom to  to make Daddy’s martini.[/b] YMMV.[/quote]

How would you feel if the husband was the SAHP?  I work full-time, as does my husband, so we have chosen to prioritize equality in our household as well.  There's nothing either of us can do that the other can't, although we tend to try to play towards our likes/dislikes and strengths/weaknesses when it comes to dividing things up.  We personally did not make the decision to have a SAHP for many reasons, but it's ok if other people decide that it's best for them.  I just wonder if people who are so against the notion of SAHMs would feel differently if instead a family had a SAHD. [/quote]

I'm the poster you're responding to.  I lack a degree of respect for any able-bodied adult who doesn't work outside the home and/or feel they need to pull their weight financially.  That doesn't matter if the adult is male or female.  That said, I think women staying home continue to propagate the idea that men make money and women do housework, which I think is so disrespectful to the generations of women who worked so hard for gender equality.  When women leave the workforce to stay home with kids or say things like "I could never let someone else raise my children!" - while not realizing the working woman they're insulting could be, say, treating their child in a hospital one day - it just brings an entire generation of women down, and will make it that much harder for our daughters to be considered equals.[/quote]

Those previous generations of women didn't work towards an ideal of feminism that turned employment into a moral imperative.  They did it for an ideal of choice.[/quote]

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