The price of being a stay-at-home mom

Feel like you can never get ahead of your bills? If you’re in a family with a stay-at-home mom, your gut feeling may be right.


A new report from the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, “Women and the Economy 2010,” finds that married couples with a working wife saw income grow by 1.12 percent per year above inflation, on average, between 1983 and 2008.


That’s not much of a gain, but consider this: According to calculations by the Joint Economic Committee, families where the wife stayed home actually saw their annual incomes decrease by 0.22 percent each year on average, when including the impact of inflation.


Again, that’s not much of a decline, but it’s definitely worse than what you’d like to see – an income on the rise.


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From a pure economic point of view, every member of the family shall work to make money, children included.

You're right Sicn! Lets get them up the chimneys!

this is a US research. In the US, most smart, capable men marry similar women (as opposed to stay at home bimbos) - and both enjoy rising incomes.


not surprising at all.