Xanthippe
2007-12-25 15:16:44
Dave:
No. The cost of being out of the work force is real, as Julia points out.
The value of the work of a homemaker enables the wage earner to devote more to his or her career, because the wage earner doesn’t have to spend the time doing those tasks or hire someone else to do them, both of which are costly.
Here’s an exercise: try hiring someone to cook, shop, clean, raise your children, perform whatever other tasks homemakers do, and see how much it would cost. It would add up to a _great_ deal more than room and board.
