This is really interesting and helpful for my thinking about this topic, thank you! Forgive me if you've already covered the following question elsewhere (I'm new here), but I'm wondering: What does a comparison look like between individuals' lifetime earnings in households where men leave the workforce* to care for children vs. households where women leave the workforce to care for children? Is there a similar decrease in lifetime earnings for those stay-at-home dads as compared to the decrease in lifetime earnings for stay-at-home women? Or do the stay-at-home dads actually still earn more than the stay-at-home moms in the long-term (given comparable durations of time away from an outside-the-home career)?
*"Workforce" here is used loosely to refer to doing a job away from the home and unrelated to direct child/household care. As a former stay-at-home dad, I'm very aware that child care is a hugely difficult, full-time job on par with literally any other high-skilled profession (at least that's been my experience, haha). Thanks again!
This is really interesting and helpful for my thinking about this topic, thank you! Forgive me if you've already covered the following question elsewhere (I'm new here), but I'm wondering: What does a comparison look like between individuals' lifetime earnings in households where men leave the workforce* to care for children vs. households where women leave the workforce to care for children? Is there a similar decrease in lifetime earnings for those stay-at-home dads as compared to the decrease in lifetime earnings for stay-at-home women? Or do the stay-at-home dads actually still earn more than the stay-at-home moms in the long-term (given comparable durations of time away from an outside-the-home career)?
*"Workforce" here is used loosely to refer to doing a job away from the home and unrelated to direct child/household care. As a former stay-at-home dad, I'm very aware that child care is a hugely difficult, full-time job on par with literally any other high-skilled profession (at least that's been my experience, haha). Thanks again!
Great write-up. I'm curious what a more accurate version of the single vs dual-income table looks like.
ok but what if i just dont have kids