The rate of millennial women choosing to become stay-at-home-moms is on the rise. Bad work-life balance and lack of flexibility may be to blame: http://on.forbes.com/6012DP1KE pic.twitter.com/skh0GNvBUB
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Actually, I hope to be a father some day and can't imagine not having the most possible time with my kids. Crazy to think that women wouldn't want that x10.
You might feel differently when you actually have them. They're lovely & I'd die for mine but humans of both sexes often do need to spend a significant amount of time doing something else or they go mad. We have family needs & intellectual/vocational/professional needs.
"vocational/professional needs"? Very few people actually work a job they like. But it sounds like you've bought into the corporate propaganda so I don't want to shatter the illusion you keep telling yourself.
Well, if there isn't actually anything intellectual or creative or professional you're actually passionate about, I could understand your feeling this way. I was a nurse and then a historian and now a political writer, all of which are very interesting.
But it doesn't need to be anything major. Many of my friends took part-time jobs waitressing or in supermarkets to get out and have a break and spend some time talking to adults. It prevented them getting depressed and lonely.
Happiness goes down when we have children and rises again when we get our lives back. You might think you'd find full-time fatherhood rewarding & maybe you would but you might find you want to get back to work and have the opportunity to think abt something else & be productive
You ain’t seen nothin yet. Wait till your kids are teenagers. What a freakin pain in the ass. They’re like biologically programmed for unhelpfulness & greedy thoughtless consumption of your last precious resources. But I love them dearly despite the angina they trigger.
Mine is now 13. You are quite right.
This is how life is. Adults have to work. Kids have to go to school. Then we get together in the evening to spend time together.
I haven't suggested they should. Some people are genuinely fulfilled by spending all their time looking after small children & doing domestic stuff. I think more probably have intellectual needs, professional ambitions, or simply a need to do something productive with adults too.
How patronising to suggest that those whose kids are their prioritiy are somehow less intellectual
I'm not. I'm suggesting looking after small children all day is not a way to satisfy intellectual needs, not that people who do that don't have any.
What's wrong with waiting until your kids are older to satisfy your intellectual needs? Oh that's right - kids are boring
There's no need to. They benefit from a bit of variety in company too. They also find adult company boring if they have to put up with it all the time.
Considering small kids sleep about 10 hrs a night, it's more like 58 hrs a week.
Well, that's still quite a lot! Love my daughter but I do have to have some productive adult time too. Work-life balance seems to be what most women want. Being neither a workaholic nor a homeaholic.
"People only usually work 40 hours/week"... lol wrong. My average the last year is about 62
You're not 'people.'
But I do live in a place where if you make average 55% of your money goes to rent/housing.
Sounds like you need to move then.
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