On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 17:26:21 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2016-06-17 4:18 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
>>> Anyway, they didn't feel threatened, they treated me like their mascot
>>> male room mother. Those were good times. I did the room mother thing
>>> for 4 years and enjoyed being part of it all.
>>
>> I don't know about threatened, but going back some years it was
>> certainly not the norm. I never heard of a stay at home dad until
>> sometime in the 80's.
>>
>
>
>The conversation I had with some women about a stay at home dad was in
>the 80s or early 90s, and they thought that any guy who let his wife go
>out and work while he stayed home was a lazy bum.
>
The ones I knew went for the one earning the most being the bread
winner.