After reading the thread on occupations, I noticed it seems we have a lot of stay-at-home mothers here. I think that's great but I know some people think it's unnecessary. What do you all think?


To further investigate... I thought I'd create a poll...

"If you can't be kind, be vague."

Generally I think societies would be better up if more people could afford to care for their kids with one parent at home, be it the dad or the mum.
I think the profession of a family-woman/man got a bad reputation for nothing, it's a very honorable job.

As a social worker I can clearly see that it is NOT unnecessary.
I am not going to elaborate, I have seen too many disturbed kids already.

(Not that a parent at home always prevents the disturbances, some even further them.)


Uhm, my poll option would have been: I am a woman without kids who would think it necessary to be there for them in the first ten years at least if I had any.

Lieber stehend sterben als kniend leben!

Being a stay at home mom is still a job and its not an easy one either. I wouldn't want to be a stay at home dad, i might go crazy. I know alot of feminist look down on it. But they shouldn't, it's the mom's choice.

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Stay at home parenting is the most difficult, most enriching job in the world.
If you have the luxury to stay home and raise your children, by all means, do so.
They will love you for it when they get older, and the world will appreciate it.

For all those who cannot,,my hat's off to you, because your job is even more difficult.

"Some kids piss their name in the snow. Chuck Norris can piss his name into concrete."

im a stay at home mum its tough, and also socialy isolating, you cant go anywhere cos they break things make a mess and people look on you as being just another bad parent. And without someone to babysit you cant go out at night aswell. Being a parent ive come to realise it has no pay, no respect and physically tireing. Yet i still never willingly give them up, i must be mad

"Where so ever you go, go with all your Heart."

At least in the beginning it is important that at least one parents stays home to take care of the kids. But it can be mentally tiring to have a world full of diapers, shit and pee and screaming kids. I don't think I could do it for a very long time. I need some nature intellectual stimuli and adults around me...

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I love staying at home with Erin. It makes matters so much easier with her school schedule since I don't have to coordinate my own work or class schedule around it, or if she gets sick and has to stay home we don't have to make alternate arrangements for that, and a whole lot of other reasons as well. Not the least of these is that for the time that I didn't stay home with her, I felt awful about it. My precious little girl was spending tons of time in daycare 5 days a week, and that just wasn't right. Not when we have a choice in the matter.

Plus, with Thak gone more than he's home, I have raised Erin alone for over 3/4 of her life, and I don't have anyone to fall back on but myself. I have to be there for her, because if I'm not, nobody will be. Thak would if he could, but even when he's not deployed or away for some other thing, he works insanely long hours, and can't be called away from the airfield to take care of family things. So being that in our family, parenting is going to fall almost solely on me no matter what, the only way this works without costing me my sanity is if I stay home.

I thought it was really hard and stuff at first, but then after trying to balance family with school, I realized that this is actually a really sweet deal. I was talking with Thak about this yesterday, actually, and he said it's so much better for our family this way, because there's less stress for all of us.

With our lifestyle, it's practically a necessity to have one parent at home, and frankly, I love being the one to do it.

He's worth it.

well Ive done both meaning...

during difficult times when we were broke, I worked full time outside of the home to help pay the bills, at the time I worked graveyard shift, so i was still there during the day, napping on and off when they did, make dinner, and be there when they got off the school bus. It dam near killed me. LOL

then i had a bit of a break, and my youngest came along..I have stayed home with him, but it was a luxury, as I started a business and mostly work from home. I dont recommend it for the faint of heart, it was full of risks, no health insurance, no