re: Married men of the OT, how many of you are single income HH?

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This is the truth. Keeping your kids from daycare is hurting them more than it’s helping them.

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This is the biggest crock of shite in this entire thread.

There is nothing about having a stay-at-home parent that harms them socially. Any stay at home parent is going to make sure their kids get social time because it is a helluva lot easier than being stuck in your house with just your kid or kids every day. No parent would survive that.

And just getting to be around other kids or people isn't necessarily a good thing. How do you know a daycare is going to properly teach your kids the right way to interact with other kids and adults? Are you vetting their degrees in early childhood development? Most daycares are not employing degreed experts.

Getting poor socializing guidance by strangers can do far more damage to your kids than a loving parent staying home with them.

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I’m a stay at home mom. We live on my husbands income. Contrary with a previous poster had stated there’s actually a double income trap when both parents work. You tend to step up your spending to match the double income, thereby exposing yourself if one of you loses their job. We live on a single income, have investment accounts and life insurance. I have a business degree and professional certifications. I have had to step in when we were younger and he was laid off. I don’t make as much as him but covered mortgage and insurance until he could get another job. If we’d bought a home, cars, vacations, assuming both of our salaries-we’d have been fricked.

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We don't need my wife's income to live, but we do if we want to go on vacations, and if we ever want to retire.

Single income here. Wife has never worked. She's perfect at being a wife over the past 24 years of marriage.

We do feel fortunate to live comfortably on just my salary.

No judgment whatsoever to others who choose a different lifestyle.