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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read "The Two Income Trap" by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). She makes a very good case for stay at home moms, even though she was a divorced mother who went back to work of her own choice.[/quote]

Ugh, I hate it when it people mischaracterize this book! This is about the struggling middle class - AND IN NO WAY ADVOCATES for women to stay home. Not that the authors are against it, but that is not the point of the book.

Further, Elizabeth Warren divorced her husband because he wouldn't let her work. I read her memoir - great read. They married when she was in college and he wanted her to drop out and be a housewife. She did and was miserable. He let her go back to school as long as didn't interfere with housework. She found a neighbor to watch the baby and went back. He let her go to law school as well - she talked him into it since it wasn't work and was more school and she got a scholarship - and she was very successful, landing offers at top firms, but she was pregnant when she graduated so didn't take them. She was miserable staying home, and he agreed to let her teach at a nearby law school but refused to lift a finger. She was miserable and one day called her aunt crying - her aunt moved in two days later and a while after that she divorced her husband, later remarrying a man who was supportive of her growing career.

While teaching, she was given a heavy load of finance and banking law subjects, and she published a study on how our financial system is built to take advantage of struggling middle class families, and even when women were getting in the workforce in droves, it wasn't helping. And that it was a systemic problem, not a family or individual failure, which is how the courts and system treated families who were in debt. It caught the attention of the media, she started doing interviews, and a Congressman asked her to come serve on a committee - which started her political career.

It didn't advocate for SAHMS (though was not against it either - it just wasn't the point of the book).

That said, OP you DH makes great money. Stay home if you want - you can always go back. [/quote]

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