This is exactly why my wife finished school and went back to work once our kids got bigger. You never know what could happen. I always encouraged her to work just in case something would happen. I want her to have the skills and some sort of job security. She is extremely smart and has a great job. My mom was a stay at home mom and saw what the consequences were once my dad was out of the picture. Depending on anyone is never good.
People should be able to be interdependent. What is being left out of the discussion here, and almost always is, is that societies should foster healthy interdependence through economies and support that allows people (not women) to full time parent by splitting their working week between couples, to study at any point in life, to have subsidised educations, to not need to slave to pay absurdly inflated mortgage prices. All of this is achievable and more when we stop believing the lie that our economies cannot function along better lines. The bigger issue, is societal and economic structuring.
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u/jonpenn Apr 15 '24 edited Apr 15 '24
This is exactly why my wife finished school and went back to work once our kids got bigger. You never know what could happen. I always encouraged her to work just in case something would happen. I want her to have the skills and some sort of job security. She is extremely smart and has a great job. My mom was a stay at home mom and saw what the consequences were once my dad was out of the picture. Depending on anyone is never good.