stay at home mom - a $134k job

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This study was probably done by women, and should therefore be disregarded completely due to their lack of analytical, logical, and mathematical reasoning ability.

They are pretty to look at and fun to have sex with, though.

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This is an outstanding analysis.

Seriously though, these studies come out every once in a while always saying the same thing, and the ones I've read bits and pieces of use a very suspect methodology. They will say how much a gardener costs per year, say, and then add that to a total as if someone were a full-time gardener. Then they get every other job added together as if it too were full-time. Sorry, but nobody works five 40 hour jobs a week, nor do they have to.

Also, they don't deduct the fact that a gardener has to go home to his own place, for which he pays rent. Last I heard, nobody is charging their wife rent. Or for food, electricity, use of credit, gas, power, telephone, doctor and dentist bills, clothes, etc. And nobody listens to their gardener nagging them or has to put up with their gardener's mother-in-law, which has gotta be worth something.

So, true value supplied isn't really looked at, nor are the freebies subtracted.

Of course, we can argue whether they're really freebies, of course, but that wipes out the main argument, that wives do something that's worth money that could or should be compensated monetarily. You can't call them family one minute and employees the next, picking and choosing wherever and whenever you like to wring the most money out of the equation.