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My Mom quit Radcliffe to support my Dad at Harvard-Bad Outcome!. How many men have gotten 'taken to the cleaners' in divorce proceedings?
Answer: Not as many as women impoverished by divorce.
If she took 2 or 3 years off for childcare after having a baby, and he didn't, then he's got 2 or 3 years more seniority.
Answer: Which he would NOT have if the wife had not covered his half of the childcare responsibility.
. In many cases, that money becomes family money.-Answer: Damn Straight!
Yes, there are tragedy stories both ways. I don't have to ask around far to find women done wrong by the opposite gender...or men!
Answer: that would be one of my brothers stories.
Interestingly enough, I wonder why we see the recurrent theme of women pulling out of maximizing their careers to financially support a husband's career progress?
Question: why don't men want to be stay at home Dads? It worked out for Clive Cussler.
Richard.
P.S.: I was single through my professional career advancement. My wife quit work after we married and advanced her Associates to a Bachelor Degree, and for now she's a stay at home Mom. My point is, we should be careful how far we generalize anecdotal experiences.
why don't men want to be stay at home Dads? It worked out for Clive Cussler
I'm a single dad, well.. I was until last summer when I finally re-married. I raised my son (now 16) and daughter (now 18) from the time they were 3 and 5 by myself. I wasn't a stay at home dad, though. I kept my job and used a daycare.I was a stay at home dad, I did it for 2 and a half years, and before I met my wife I was a single parent of two kids who's mom decided she didn't want them any more (I also don't get child support).
I was the only stay at home dad I knew It gets lonely being one. I got real tiered of the "Mr Mom" stuff also. As a stay at home dad, you will get use to people (mostly woman in my experience I think men are jealous) looking at you like you are lazy, you get to explain your self to people you see for the first year. You slowly get emasculated. You don't get a social life because all your buddies got jobs during the day and you can't go out after your wife gets home because she just worked all day and some one has to cook and stuff. You can try to hang out with the stay at home moms but that doesn't work out because men and woman have different interests. What you also need to know is all the husbands will think you are screwing their wives. It got to the point with me that the only person I seen over the age of 10 was my wife.
The best part is my two little girls are tough as nails and wont take no flack from any one and my son can clean a house.
I think if more men did stay at home with the children it would be cool, then there would be play groups that are more male oriented. Right now it's hard for a man to be a stay at home dad, too much sexism.