<p>Working for pay women don’t want to be told how to run their careers or to be judged on how they balance their lives by moms who stay at home. By the same token, women who are working for pay might want to avoid telling stay-at-home moms how they should run their lives.</p>
<p>If one person is a multimillionaire, and another is a trophy spouse - than yes, relationships can work.</p>
<p>"Should people who want to be stay at home parents really not even bother with college? </p>
<p>Yes, yes, yes.</p>
<p>Education and years of work experience provide security cushion for a stay-home-mom. Nice feeling that you can re-enter job market at any moment, if financial situation changes.</p>
<p>CA, who are you thinking values education more, the multimillionaire or the trophy spouse?</p>
<p>I never planned on being a stay at home mom, but when two busy careers clashed with what was best for the kids at the time, I chose the kids’ best interests at the time.
I believe that I always used my education, albeit not always in the way I had planned to, but I was able use it to make contributions to my family and community.</p>
<p>I think it depends on their people, and the advocacy for or against it.</p>
<p>From an experimental perspective, NO… it just DOESN’T WORK.</p>
<p>My spouse and I are both extremely education oriented and have gotten multiple postgraduate degrees and continue to get additional degrees and certificates through professional education. This has been a great source of mutual enjoyment and I think it’s been a good example to our DS as well. One of my best friends is a “self-made man” who dropped out of school and now owns his own business and reads a lot and is openly scornful about posh higher education… his kids are also very likely going to college, but don’t have the same intense focus that my son does. </p>
<p>There are plenty of things that go into a marriage though – religious differences and class differences can be tough, too.</p>