Yes because life is long and one should have a back up plan

I believe for women who are both white and married there is substantial research that shows going to college is a net wealth positive even if the woman never works outside of the home and is personnally (along with the eventual spouse) liable for the entire cost of her education.

Educational attainment by the child is directly linked to the mom's education level. This is why it's important to care about women's education even if they are going to be SAHMs.

I didn't understand this until I became a parent, but now I do. All around me it's the moms who are buying the books that get read to at night, tutoring kids the most, planning educational outings. DH is there with me too, but it's the moms that plan this stuff the most.

Anonymous wrote:She needs an education to be a good mom, a good partner, a good citizen and to volunteer.

WRONG

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She needs an education to be a good mom, a good partner, a good citizen and to volunteer.

If she got divorced or became a widow or if her husband couldn't work than a degree would come handy.

She may not want to have a full time job but may want to pursue a passion or participate in family business.

She may at some point change her mind. High school is too early to know what you want from life.

She obviously has a good family.

What on earth leads you to that conclusion? That the women want/do stay home in that family?

"Good family" = enough wealth that staying at home is always an option. In comfort.

Anonymous wrote:She needs an education to be a good mom, a good partner, a good citizen and to volunteer.

If she got divorced or became a widow or if her husband couldn't work than a degree would come handy.

She may not want to have a full time job but may want to pursue a passion or participate in family business.

She may at some point change her mind. High school is too early to know what you want from life.

She obviously has a good family.

What on earth leads you to that conclusion? That the women want/do stay home in that family?

Anonymous wrote:Absolutely. It is difficult to find a high-earning man without a college degree.

This.

Anecdotally, I wanted to be a SAHM, just like my own mother. We had some infertility struggles and I begrudgingly continued to work for several years longer than I wanted until I finally got pregnant. However, after a few years of the SAHM thing, I felt so unfulfilled by wiping butts and singing the ABC song repeatedly that I went back to work part time. It would have been a lot harder to go back had I not had my degree and previous experience.

Sure. You don’t know what the future holds - you might end up being long term single and never getting married/having kids. You might end up seriously disliking SAHP life and want to go back to work quickly. You might luck into a great job when you’re a 22/23 year old recent college grad and not want to give it up.

An education major is probably best - the world always needs teachers if you decide against long term SAHParenting. And then you’ll be more familiar with child development. Or you can open your own home day care and stay home with your kid while taking care of others, or have a leg up as an educated nanny.

That is like a high schooler saying they just want to be a SAHM so their grades don’t matter. Terrible idea. High schoolers are pretty immature and don’t know the future. And yes the social life at college is a good reason to go.

Besides, college helps you develop skills that are useful as a SAHM. One of the best predictors of reading success is how language-rich the environment is at home. Someone with a college degree will be able to use more advanced vocabulary with her kids and her kids will be more successful in school.

I never ever think it’s a good idea to go into substantial debt for a college degree, the kind of debt where you have no hope of paying it off or getting to the point where you can have solid savings. So obviously someone who doesn’t want to dive into lucrative career shouldn’t do that. But some debt that you can reasonably pay off after a few years of a decent paying job? Yes. And I’d pay for my kid to do that if she wanted to be a SAHM.

Education is not equal to a meaningless job you don't want, there is more to it. Even though that's what it is to majority.

She needs an education to be a good mom, a good partner, a good citizen and to volunteer.

If she got divorced or became a widow or if her husband couldn't work than a degree would come handy.

She may not want to have a full time job but may want to pursue a passion or participate in family business.

She may at some point change her mind. High school is too early to know what you want from life.

She obviously has a good family.

Crap happens. My bff lost her husband when she was six months pregnant with their first child. Life was hard enough as it was. I can’t imagine what it would have been like for her without an education and a job.

I think it’s great to stay home with kids, especially when they are small. But there’s a long stretch between 20 and 65 and odds are high you’ll need or want paid employment at some point in there.

Yes! You never know what life brings. Education is never wasted.

There are so many college educated people doing jobs or businesses which which anyone with a GED can do.

She is a teenager, leave her alone.