Re:Why American men are getting less marriageable
by Blackstone4 on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:02AM
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I never said outsourcing was a silver bullet.
Outsource where you can. Where you can't, share the responsibility.
All of this is subject to whether or not you can afford it. I made my assumption based on two breadwinners.
In my mind $15k is a not a breadwinner salary. I had assumed since you referred to yourself as a modern women who makes good money you'd be at least making $70k-$100k.
Re:Why American men are getting less marriageable
by cimmanom on Friday January 26, 2018 @12:45PM
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The original article here is about the decline of marriage in places where jobs are vanishing. Yeah, I make significantly more than that and can outsource a lot of grunt work. The typical potential couple in the places described in the article has the same gender dynamic but not the same resources I do.
Re:Why American men are getting less marriageable
by romanovcode on Friday January 26, 2018 @08:41AM
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If both of them start fighting about who's turn it is to take the kid to dentist then I gotta say - why bother with kids in the first place? It is clear that both persons don't want to deal with kids.
How does outsourcing help with a crying baby at 2am? How does outsourcing help with the mental burden of worrying about whether the kids have their shots and annual dentist visits and don't forget that you have to go shopping because they outgrew their shoes?
And if you're raising two kids on a $35k nursing salary and the $15k your husband earns at the minimum wage job that's all that's available to him, how are you going to afford any of that anyway?