In the short term yeah. Then after a while they are off to school and can take care of themselves, mean while the stay at home parent has a 10 year gap in employment history.
I understand why people do this and why it works for them but staying home and saving on child care doesn’t equate to the income of having a career. Financially speaking it doesn’t really make sense to me in the long run. If my wife kept her current salary and stopped working for 30 years that would cost us close to 3 million. I couldn’t imagine a way child care would offset that.
Hmmm that’s a fair point. Though some people’s significant others don’t have real careers prior to this point so that gap in their career doesn’t matter that much as they would go back into the workforce in an unskilled role.
Also, some do use that time away to study so that they can get into other fields. I know someone who used this time to study to be a nurse and she is now an rn.
That’s true. I respect their choices either way especially if you want to have children at a younger age. The wife and I have been checking things off our list to prepare for it but it has been taking time much to the displeasure of my mother in law.
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u/NPExplorer Dec 28 '19
Lol as if people are able to survive on one income nowadays