2 income society

I totaly agree. I to am a sahm with four kids. We dont trust daycare either and like you have no one else to watch them. So we strugle but god always provides what we need. It may not be what we want sometimes but always what we need.

I've been a SAHM since 2003 and yes it's very hard. Now here it is in 2007 with baby #3 on they way and I'm still doing it. Yes, we have to make sacrifices, and yes, more money would make our lives much more easier, but it's worth it.

It should not be necessary to have to live on two incomes. I think part of the reason is that the good paying jobs are being taken away and men have to now work at jobs that pay half as much. So in essence, now one is working at half the income it would have taken years ago and so the wife is forced to work. In the 1990s, companies started to lay off people who made good income and these people now had to work at home or use the money they would have put away for their old age to start their own companies or find lesser paying job. In a way, you could say that Satan influenced those business men and encouraged their greed so that they kept the money for themselves and did not pay the worker his just due. You can make it on one salary, but it will be hard and it does help to work at home. Some of my friends stayed home while their children were young and then got part time jobs later on, but only at the hours when their children were away.

I completely agree with you, but I actually think that many families with more than one child umder five, will have a hard time actually affording for the woman to work. When my son was two years old, I began working in Manhattan and I left at 7 a.m., and returned at 7 p.m., I will never forget this feeling of losing the connection that I had with my son, I am glad I tried it though as I now know how lucky I am to be able to stay home with my kids. We now have two boys under the age of five, and we have actually did some calculations. By not having to pay day care (good quality daycare) for our two children, and by me saving on groceries by using sales and coupons, and by doing product testing and saving in many other ways, I am actually able to "earn" more than I would if I had a full time job, when subtracting day care, transportation, clothing, lunch and gift expenses from my paychek. I gave birth to my second son in Denmark, and I was actually able to get 12 months of paid maternity leave. I simply cannot understand, while the United States does not value their mothers more than they do. Siz weeks unpaid leave is completely unacceptable, if you look at European standards.

I believe that you are a good mother to your baby. Your baby will grow well with the help of your care. I hope that you will have a happy life in the future.