Are At-Home Moms a Luxury Good?/Maggie Gallagher

Brad Wilcox over has familyscholars blog has pointed out the Great Caitlin Flanagan Debate has reinforced false stereotypes about who all these stay at home moms are.

They aren't mostly rich women or women with rich husbands. They aren't an economic elite at all. In fact, according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States 2002 (chart 662), the median income of a family with a wife out of the paid labor force in the year 2000 was $39, 735. The median income of a family with a wife in the paid labor force was: $69,463.
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