Re: Do people respect working wives more than stay home moms?
Nik, this exact attitude has bitten me (AND my kids) more than a handful of times. Esp with docs and my special needs boy. They see "housewife" and just dismiss me and assume that I'm a village idiot.
This led to many months of stress and an unhealthy situation for my son. So once I found my voice and started growling at the docs and asking them about things THEY havent yet read about in the medical journals things started to turn around.
Staying home with your kids very rarely means that you la-de-dah, eat bonbons and watch soaps all day. Actually, my professional life in wall street technology (70 hours min at work, the rest of the time on call) was MUCH less stressful in so many ways than being a stay-home mom.
I'd never for all the money in the world, change the fact that I'm here at home with and for my kids. But dealing with that particular "tood" TOTALLY makes me wanna go postal.