Dad Says He Can’t Afford a Stay-at-Home Mom, You Will Agree With His Explanation

Dad Says He Can’t Afford a Stay-at-Home Mom, You Will Agree With His Explanation
Illustration - Shutterstock
Updated:

Tell a stranger at a dinner party that you’re a glass blower, a contortionist, or a stay-at-home mom and they may look back at you with a quizzical stare. The full-time job of being a mom has long been satirized or diminished as being “not a real job,” but a husband and father from Plano, Texas, put paid to the naysayers with a provocative open letter.

His wife was a stay-at-home mom, and he calculated her value down to the very last dollar.