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kane · 08-19-2009, 03:41 PM

I think some of it too is just families shifting priorities. A friend of mine is married and has three kids. One of them is really young (4 yrs old). His wife had a full time job then got laid off when the company eliminated her position. She got on unemployment and about a month later found another job, but it was a contract/temp job. A few months later it ended. She continued to look, but she was only finding jobs that were going to pay $9-$11 an hour, which is better than nothing, but they also had to pay a full time babysitter for her to do that. They decided, in the end, it wasn't worth it. After the babysitter and gas to commute she would end up making about $4 an hour so they decided instead to just have her be a stay at home mom. Technically, she is unemployed and counts as being unemployed even though she has chose not to work right now.

08-19-2009, 03:41 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	I think some of it too is just families shifting priorities. A friend of mine is married and has three kids. One of them is really young (4 yrs old). His wife had a full time job then got laid off when the company eliminated her position. She got on unemployment and about a month later found another job, but it was a contract/temp job. A few months later it ended. She continued to look, but she was only finding jobs that were going to pay $9-$11 an hour, which is better than nothing, but they also had to pay a full time babysitter for her to do that. They decided, in the end, it wasn't worth it. After the babysitter and gas to commute she would end up making about $4 an hour so they decided instead to just have her be a stay at home mom. Technically, she is unemployed and counts as being unemployed even though she has chose not to work right now.