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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]LOL at the idea ambitious men benefit from having stay at home spouses.

[quote] Its a sacrifice and should be valued and respected.[/quote]

LOL it is the stay at home wife who benefits from being married to some rich guy. She gets to live in his mansion and spend his money, what a sacrifice.  :roll: She will whine and wheedle until he hires maids and nannies to do her job for her. Much sacrifice! So brave!  Oh but wait she gave up her crappy cubicle job to do that, what a trooper!  No wonder it's so hard to find women who want to sign up to be married to a rich guy.[/quote]

Being a stay at home parent is a thankless job, not everyone gets a mansion, maid and nanny. Not every ambitious man/woman earns a fortune, at least not in first decade of work when these things are needed the most.[/quote]

+1, [b]being a SAHP when you don't have a high income is hard work because you are often working very hard to keep the family on budget, too[/b]. Lots of SAHPs are full financial partners and offer more value at home than they would in even a decent paying office job. If a person making 70-90k working full time with a commute can instead eliminate the need for a nanny or FT daycare for multiple kids, keep the house clean, do most of the grocery shopping and meal prep, and will also be the primary parent on top of that (managing schools, clothes, doctors and dentists visits, take the lead on everything from toilet training to diet to friendship issues and activities), you're talking about way, way more value to the family than an extra 80k, especially if there are young kids because most of the take home from the 80k will be eaten up by childcare costs.[/quote]

The solution is a very simple one:  Find a very high earning spouse.   That's what I did.[/quote]

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