More Dads Take Stay-At-Home Route

WFTV ^ | 2/22/05 | Internet Broadcasting Systems

[StarCMC]

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[SteveMcKing]

Whatever produces the most time with the kids and still pays the bills, that's what you should do.

[qam1]

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[familyop]

"More dads" don't have another good choice when their wives (and now foreigners) have been preferred over them in the job market for so long.

[brushcop]

And that's the only way it really works correctly. I haven't seen any of these stay-at-home Dads that weren't lacking somehow--feminized men, meanwhile, the nurturers of the family are out there dealing with everything else and, I suspect, doing more than their fair share after they get home.

[SteveMcKing]

"Men are biblically and genetically predisposed be the heads of households. That's just the way it's set up."

Spoken like a troll who registered 2 days ago.

[Modernman]

My wife and I are fighting over who gets to stay home once we have kids. We both make pretty much the same salary. so we'd be in the same place, financially.

Personally, I'd love to stay home with the kids. It seems like a much more valuable use of my time than working as a lawyer.

[billorites]

I've stayed home with all three of my kids. (for the most part)

I'm a child and family therapist by profession. I'm going to get a job taking care of other people's brats so I can pay someone to take care of mine?

I think not.

[Modernman]

Men are biblically and genetically predisposed be the heads of households.

What does that have to do with who takes care of the kids? What's a more worthwhile use of a man's time, raising his children or working a corporate job?

[exnavychick]

That may be true, but real life isn't always so easy. My husband was unemployed for a time, and he stayed home with the children. He wasn't very comfortable with it, and it wasn't something he really CHOSE to do, but lemme tell ya, there were lots of guys I met that sort of envied him the time he got to spend with our boys. He's not a good housekeeper, lol, so I continued doing that, but he did a great job with the boys, whether or not he was "biblically and genetically predisposed" to be the head of our house. In fact, I would say that his status in that regard was largely unchanged...it takes more to being a husband and father than just bringing home the bacon, imo.

[lowbridge]

Check out his posting history. You'll find more of the same.

Call in the kitties.

[familyop]

"I haven't seen any of these stay-at-home Dads that weren't lacking somehow--feminized men,..."

I haven't seen any of these work-outside-the-home Moms that weren't lacking somehow--manly women,... ...haven't seen any bosses or "human resources" "persons" who aren't likely latent homosexuals, either.

[Sarcasm, turnabout]

[k2blader]

No doubt I'll be flamed for this, but I think husbands should be the major bread-winners. Can't really explain it but it seems more natural.

That said, having a daddy at home taking care of the kids is far far better than shuffling the kids off to "daycare".

[LauraleeBraswell]

Good for you!

Theres nothing wrong with a man staying home and "raising the children. If women can go into the workplace and do what was considered a "man's job" just as well as the man, then a man can stay home.

[savedbygrace]

Should be renamed Generation I.

I, I, I, I. The self-absorbed generation.

[newgeezer]

Men and Women, Equal Yet Different: A Brief Study of the Biblical Passages on Gender by Alexander Strauch

I wonder if you'll want to get me banned, too.

[newgeezer]

I think husbands should be the major bread-winners. That said, having a daddy at home taking care of the kids is far far better than shuffling the kids off to "daycare".

I'll agree with all of that.

[Cogadh na Sith]

Yeah, so self-absorbed that they are willing to give up their own career for their kid's sake.

Not like those selfless, quiet baby boomers...