Unfortunately, there are increasingly less men out there now days who will do everything they can so that the kids have their moms anytime they need them. These guys seem to think that if the wife is at home with the kid(s) she should have plenty of time to make the house spotless and not have equal sayso as to how the money is spent. If the husband doesn’t actually complain, threaten or coerece the wife to going out to work, the wife goes back to work just to try and stop some of the criticism, and to get income that she can use at her discression (in otherwords, freedom). Guess who still ends up doing the vast bulk of the housework, even working part and/or fulltime?

With all fairness to men, this is how a lot of working women see things as well. Families of the husband also seem to share the above opinion, even when the wives of older generations stayed home!

Staying home with the first is a wonderful thing. After 2, the couple is probly running out of money and needing to draw in more.