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Another reason a stay at home parent is so worth it (....snip...).
Way decreases the rush and stress to divide the responsibilities.
It can. It can also add more stress if the one income is tenuous and/or the family is just eking by every month or not able to save adequately for college or retirement, or not able to afford decent health coverage. Every family must make the decision that works best for their family. One size does not fit all.
Yes, families live in a state of stress - it's called being alive.
I'm sorry, but I'm tired of this woe-be-gone "Life is so terrible now!" line of thinking, which implicitly suggests that days gone by were days of wonder and delight.
What's the poverty rate today? It's lower than it was fifty years ago, and a lot lower than it was eighty years ago, before Social Security. How's that stress over polio and all those other diseases that used to give us a much higher childhood mortality rate? All those dead kids, and just the knowledge that your kids were more likely to die then than now, might've been a bit of a source of stress, no? How about that six-day twelve-hours-per-day workweek? A general life expectancy decades shorter than now? How stress-free was life in the Gilded Age, or for non-whites in the good old South, or for women when marital rape was legal in every state through 1975 and when credit could only be had with a husband's permission? How stressed were parents when their kids were driving on roads that were far more dangerous in the past? Or going off into a world of a violent crime rate that was significantly higher twenty, thirty, forty years ago than today? By almost every actual verifiable metric, there's less to be stressed about today than there was in the 'good old days'.
I am married with three children. I'll take the stress of 2015 over that of thirty or sixty or ninety years ago, thanks.
Agree. I will add I think if most of these people did what they needed to do, instead of constantly checking their phones nonstop, they wouldn't be so overwhelmed.
I have now seen several people in Target for example who stand their texting with their empty shopping cart, instead of shopping.
It has happened a few times where I have arrived around the same time as these people, I get my shopping done are in line to pay, meanwhile they're still texting and have an empty cart....LOL.
And your kids don't have to be constantly on the go with 4 different activities, cut it back to one or two.
Most of these people do it to themselves, they're the same ones who have "Holiday Stress"...sigh. Why can't you just relax and keep it simple?
It can. It can also add more stress if the one income is tenuous and/or the family is just eking by every month. Every family must make the decision that works best for their family. One size does not fit all.
So are they eking by or on elite soccer teams?Most middle class kids are not on elite sports teams - you may experience differently in your not-so-average neck of the woods
If I was eking, I'd reconsider having kids.
And that would certainly be your prerogative .
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