- Feb 22, 2017
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Agree. A friend of mine stayed home with their daughter, meaning only the husband worked, and thus they could afford just a townhouse instead of a single-family house. (Of course, the sf of the townhouse was more than that of SFHs she and I grew up in, so no big sacrifice.)
She went back to work when her daughter turned 9, and hired a high school kid to watch her after school, and she and her husband bought the SFH they wanted. So….they delayed the house purchase by 10 years, but provided full-time mama care when the kid was a child.
THAT is how it should be done. It takes a lot of entitlement to force other people to pay for your daycare costs so you can afford a house.
This is the best way in my opinion. My wife quit her job after our youngest was born. She tried to go back to work but could not stand to be away from our daughter so she quit and we made do with a single income for the next 16 years.
It was hard at times seeing family members taking all sorts of trips and vacations while our only vacations were when we were moving from one base to the next.
But it was well worth it all and now we are more than making up for it