>and the reduced stress that I experience knowing that our home life is taken care of while I'm working is worth the loss of income, especially since we live in

>and the reduced stress that I experience knowing that our home life is taken care of while I'm working is worth the loss of income, especially since we live in a place where we can comfortably get by on my salary. Until you unexpectedly lose your job and then have no income. Hopefully you have savings to fall back on, if not you find yourself facing questions like: How can I feed my children? Or pay for medicine. Don't get me wrong, I hear you brother. I had a stay at home mom and loved it, my wife came from a divorced family and didn't like being a latch-key kid. So our decision for her to be a stay at home mom, to give up her career wasn't terribly difficult. But I would be lying if I said I didn't worry about only having one income. I'd swallow my pride in an instant and go shovel shit all day if it meant that the family would have food, but it's a little stressful none the less. The problem with dual income is that paying for childcare often doesn't scale well as the number of children go up. That cost quickly eats more and more of the second income.