On 6/17/2016 5:26 PM, 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.
>
>

In the case of the two I was aware of the women were doing well in the
paycheck. One was a scientist working for a major pharmaceutical, the
other a physician, OB-GYN.