What if married women with kids stayed home?

There are those trades that are in very high demand that pay very nice salaries such as truck drivers and nurses. It's difficult to fill slots in those two examples of jobs and for that reason people doing those jobs are well compensated. There are relatively few qualified job seekers available for those positions.

Fewer people competing for the same jobs often means more pay for those jobs. Not in all cases, but in most.

So what would happen if most married women with children stayed home to raise their families and did not compete in the job market with their husbands. Would that mean more jobs available for the male job seekers? Since there would be fewer job seekers available would employers value their employees more and provide them with better salaries? If the employees made more money would there then not be a need for a two-earner household? Children would grow up better adjusted; unlikely to become burdens to society and more likely to become successful adults.

I've been married twice, both times for twenty years. During the first marriage I worked two and sometimes three jobs while raising 4 kids. I don't think as a couple we ever got a comfortable routine going, it was always a hassle and the kids were usually in some sort of trouble. We managed to buy a home and all that but everything was always done in such a rush.
The second marriage I stayed home, finished raising my kids form our first marriage and his son. (By the way the first husband booked and hid from paying child support).We made much more progress in the second. I took a lot more guff from people who think that being a stay at home mom means you are lazy . Anyway, the second one worked best because we were more mature and actually sat down to figure out on paper what the cost of being a working mom was. After including everyhting from nursing uniforms, lunches, gas, after school childcare, etc. We found it cost us $1.40 per week to have me work full time. So the deal was he would work outside, I would hold the fort down. I'm still holding, he's awesome, and it has been worth every bit of it.

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Kids would be raised better probably and that would probably cut down on affairs.

It can't be done, Cost of living is too high for a family to enjoy that luxury

That is a great theory. I do not think it would be that easy though.

I see your point. Never thought of it that way. I stay home because I can. I may go without luxuries, but I have the necessities. I had my children for me to raise. Not a daycare. I know some mothers have to work, especially if they're single, but a lot do not. More mothers should stay home. Your children will only be little once. This is the only chance that you'll have.

What about all the single parent households? Or, do we go back to women being forced to stay in abusive marriages because they have no independence apart from being someone's spouse and parent? It's not exactly the same for a man because family members will usually help out and support a single father moreso than a single mother. It is also more socially acceptable for a single father to give his children to an older relative to raise. While I understand your point, I don't understand how it helps that percentage of the population that does not have and never had two adults running one household.

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Those assumptions you make aren't necessarily valid. I'm old enough to remember what it was like when a lot of mothers didn't work. There were just different problems then. I can see advantages and disadvantages either way. You are going to get hammered here, though, as being a sexist regardless of whether you are or not or whether you just don't have good sense of how to frame a question so it's politically correct.
I will say, though, that in many of their households, if they are willing to cut back just a little, they may find their quality of life is no worse or perhaps even better. They won't have to have that third car. They'll pay less in taxes. They won't need that extra set of business clothes. No babysitter to pay. One less cell phone, perhaps. Less therapy. Fewer aspirin. Fewer meals eaten out because no one had time to cook. People who have made the switch to have mom stay home often report that in the sum total of things, they had to give up just a few things, but the quality of their lives is just as good, and if you enjoy the quality being a little simpler and slower then the quality can be much better.

Two things have happened that we should consider.
One, we have become a material society for better or worse. We like having air conditioning and indoor toilets, and television and telephones. Those things cost money. One person might have trouble providing those basics without a little help.
Two, we have the highest taxes in history. The more the government takes the more we have to make just to keep even. It is most likely the governments fault. We dont really have any power over it.
If we went back to the tax system we had in the 50s when women stayed home with their children we could choose to stay home if we wanted.
We dont have that easy choice now and we dont have the power to change it.
And before someone asks me if I voted, well I have never voted for a tax increase and I dont believe Ive ever been asked.
I dont believe you can put the blame on business trying to cut costs. They are paying atrocious taxes too. Maybe thats why they cant pay as good a salary.
Children growing up to adults to be a burden on society have generally only themselves to blame after a while. I mean when do your adult actions not have anything to do with your upbringing?
I cant blame my parents for hardly anything. Success or failure.

I agree. For a woman to stay home and raise her children is the true nature of things. But between the lack of marriageable men and with the way society looks at marriage today as a burden and not a blessing it's hard and with the way most men think money is power it's hard for a woman to do her job and be respected for what she dose. So maybe one day