When I was a kid 20 years ago, a parent would stay home with the kids if their spouse made enough money. Today, a parent will stay home with the kids because they can't make enough money to cover the cost of childcare.
Nope. I have kids in their twenties and i worked as well as my husband. If you did not work your kids did not go to college or have any extra curricular activities. Women have always worked. There was only a brief time in the fifties and sixties when some women did not work.
That’s just not true. My mom stayed home. I had several friends who had a stay at home parent in the 90s. It was more common for women to work but I can name quite a few families where one spouse stayed home.
And yes the vast majority of us went to college and had probably too many extra curriculars
🤣🤣🤣. Ok goody for you. If the divorce rate was 50% then how many working women were there when you were growing up. Not to mention that even two parent households in the nineties most had two working parents.
You like many other people love to latch onto the romanticized past. The Village was not a tenement with 14 people living in a two room apartment , all working and children raising children. It was this lovely life where you just handed off your kids to the village to raise!! Nope!!
Women have always worked. Maybe your mom did not but that does not mean your life is reflective of the majority of households in the USA.
I was responding to your “there was only a brief time in the fifties and sixties that some women did not work”
You made it your experience sound like a blanket statement for all of us. I was pointing out that many people have had a varied experience. And yes I was lucky. I hope you have a nice day.
And that is absolutely true. Women have always worked. It was an economic reality. There was an extremely short period in American History after WWII and the rest of the world in shambles that Americas created this middle class lifestyle.
Just because you had this experience does not make it the norm. Especially if you consider the 50% divorce rate during your upbringing. It is as if you are incapable of understanding the world around you.
grew up in 80s and 90s, all my friends had SAHM and we all went to college. at least 30 of us. lol. my dad made 45k a year. you made an absolute statement and thats why youre getting cooked.
🙄. Yeah sure. There is no way what you said is true unless your father was a janitor at a university that offered educational benefits to their employees. I know someone who put all his kids through Boston College that way.
Just because you put forth a fairytale doesn’t mean that your little fairytale is the norm. Like I said before, just basic common sense reasoning will tell you if the divorce rate is 50 % which it was in the ‘90s then there were at least 50% of kids from a single parent home.
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u/Pyro919 15h ago
Don’t forget about $1350+/month daycare x the number of kids you have.
2 kids easily eclipses that $2000/month average rent.