When being a SAHM isn't a choice

Albertsgirl1982

Interesting read. How many of S13 are in a this position?

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5537503?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

jlp0528

Basically this is us. I've been working to try and secure a teaching position but it's incredibly difficult to unless you day to day sub in a lot of the districts locally before you can even get interviewed. So I stayed home this past year and very well may next year.

michelle7482

I got laid off when DD1 and we decided I would stay home. I didn't want my kids in daycare so we made it work. My H makes good money, we make ends meet and have a nice savings in case he ever loses his job but we certainly make sacrifices! I'll definitely go back to work once my kids are in school.

DaisyZH

This is us as well, my salary would have had me barely ahead with daycare costs when I had DS but now with two it wouldn't even be a possibility. It's funny how many people assume we must be well off to have me stay home.

redfallon

Before we got married, we discussed me staying home. Besides wanting to do it, we calculated the cost versus daycare, and with what I was making at my old job we would have spent all of it except maybe $5k a year on daycare. That wasn't worth it to us. Then DH got a new job and we moved to Austin. The job I got here paid a lot less than my job in Dallas, so it wasn't even a question of me staying home. Daycare providers make more than I did at that job, even though it wasn't a bad job (an office job at an insurance agency).  I've been SAH since a month before Emily was born.