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I'm curious as well. Why does OP assume it would have to be the woman staying home?
I don't have children yet, but if I could afford it, I'd have one of us stay home part time. If I made more money than my husband, he would stay home.
I would only do this while the children were young. I'd also want my children to be socialized with other children at a young age. I know some kids that are products of a stay at home family that never had them out of the house and around other kids on a regular basis and are now in grade school and bratty.
I know a lot of stay at home Dads and they do a fantastic job.
If I won the lottery today and became instantly, independently wealthy, I would still work. I like having a job. I like having something to do day in and day out; I like the structure and schedule, the routineness of it all. I like the interaction with other people. I'm not a party person or naturally extroverted and sociable, and I'm afraid that if I didn't work, I'd isolate myself. Having a job makes me happy. Feeling like a valued member of my group at work makes me happy. Being self-sufficient makes me happy. (One of my favorite days of the month is the day I sit down and write the checks to pay my bills.)
That said, I am not a professionally ambitious person, so my worklife is not particularly taxing. I have a good job and make a decent salary and work a 40-hour week. When the "whistle blows," I go home and I don't think about work until 9:00 a.m. the next day. And if I could afford it financially, I would probably do something dramatically DIFFERENT than what I'm doing now, work-wise, but I would still work outside the home.
I don't have kids but we plan to soon and I won't ever be a stay at home Mom. My mother worked most of my life and honestly when she was a SAHM she seemed unfulfilled and resentful of it.
I've gone to grad school and have a job I truly enjoy and although I will take about 6 months of maternity leave when I have kids, I won't stay off wok for ever.
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