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re: Wife quit her professional medical job when we decided to have a kid
Posted on 1/5/17 at 9:49 am to genro
Posted on 1/5/17 at 9:49 am to genro
Jesus frick, I hope you don't allow her to talk on the phone or drive a car, and it goes without asking but surely you don't allow her to traipse around the kitchen with shoes on? Please tell me you don't.
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Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:21 pm to genro
So much hate in this thread 
Posted on 1/5/17 at 12:56 pm to genro
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frick her degree. frick the extra income. frick women's lib.
I've always felt that true feminism is a woman having the option to make the choice to raise her kids if she sees fit to do so. And respecting a woman who makes that choice. The feminist movement has been alienating women who want to do so since WWII. And it's likely what cost us the passing of the ERA.
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This is the way it always should have been.
Honestly, we should as a society be supporting our working class, intelligent members of society reproduce. That may mean being more flexible in the workplace for new mothers and fathers. Providing better maternity and paternity leave. And recognizing that production and families suffer when you work people to the point that they cannot produce a stable family environment because of their absence.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 1:11 pm to genro
This has been a male dominated conversation, it would be great to hear from some of the women out there on the topic.
With 2 healthy kids or less, it is pretty easy to run a house and keep a career. The key is both husband and wife have to share the responsibilities.
I will not lie. If my daughter grew up and graduated college and then quit work to just be a stay at home mom (I know many here in Texas that did just that), I would want all the college fund money back from her. Spend $50,000 to $100,000 for an education and then become something you can do for free.
With 2 healthy kids or less, it is pretty easy to run a house and keep a career. The key is both husband and wife have to share the responsibilities.
I will not lie. If my daughter grew up and graduated college and then quit work to just be a stay at home mom (I know many here in Texas that did just that), I would want all the college fund money back from her. Spend $50,000 to $100,000 for an education and then become something you can do for free.
Posted on 1/5/17 at 2:22 pm to genro
I know plenty women who hate staying home with their children. And men who enjoy it. What's your point?
Posted on 1/5/17 at 2:54 pm to genro
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frick her degree. frick the extra income. frick women's lib.
What exactly do you consider women's lib to be???
You are stating that taking away choices that you deem as now useless (degree, income) is the correct and only way. So, it wasn't her choice to stay at home?? Women's lib is just that... the ability to make choices. Whatever that may be. Don't confuse your way for being the 'right' way.
Congrats to you guys for finding out what works for you. Seriously. Personally, I'd rather run into a brick wall head first than stay at home with my kids all day every day.
(one is a teenager. might be why) Working as always been what is right for me and always will be. I was always the bread winner, though....so, there is that. That said, it would never have made a difference. For me the choice is having it all. It works for me. Then again as a woman I put a lot of value in a degree, income and women's lib. 
Posted on 1/6/17 at 9:07 pm to genro
My wife has never worked in our 18 years of marriage.
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