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[quote=Anonymous]I'm OP. The responses here seem to highlight the fact that there is no shared definition of SAHP among DCUM.

When I read the big fights between SAHMs and the working moms here, especially when it comes to what happens when the couple divorces, it's always about the woman having stopped earning income and not having her own retirement plan that is built over 30+ years of consistent income. So, I don't consider someone who goes back to work, full time or part time, within 3-4 years to be a SAHM. To me, a SAHM is someone like my own mother who never earned income from the time she had her first child till she was in her 80s. She is entirely dependent on my dad's income and the saving/pension/Social Security credits building he did during his working years for her survival. By that definition, it seems that very few people on DCUM, even those in the wealthiest areas, know many SAHMs. The rich parents with real family money (those who don't have to work for a living) are an entirely different story.

And many people living and working in the DMV are in career tracks that don't allow one to leave for a few years and then just pop back in. None of the military people can do this, and you can't do that as a Fed. You also can't do this in IT or Intel/security because the fields move so fast and you're skills/knowledge becomes obsolete very quickly.

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