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01-02-2011, 08:02 AM

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MMM I know quite a few families where it was the husband who gave up career to care for the children and house. It was because the wife earned far more money and it didn't make any sense for her to stop working financially.
But you certainly would not say this is the norm. At least in the US there are "support groups" for fathers that make this choice. There is a lot of misunderstanding.

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Society teaches men to be the bread-winners and there is negativity associated, by some, when it is the wife who is the bread-winner and the husband is the stay-at-home parent.

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If you have a family in which they want one parent to stay at home what's it matter whether it's the husband or wife? In a society where there is equality it doesn't matter at all. Sounds like that's not something you're overly familiar with?
No need to be insulting. Like I just said, there are a lot of misunderstandings an negative attitudes against men who choose to stay at home and have the wives bringing home the bacon. That's true in the US and true in Japan. Indeed I am not overly familiar with a society that accepts this without comment, as I have never lived in one.
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