Double Income.

Once upon a time most homes had one income.

Dad went to work [outside of the home].

Mom worked at home [managing the home]

The people who loved their children most actually raised their children...wow...what a concept!

Then one day some bright family thought that they could get ahead in life...they figured out that they could make more with two incomes then only one...and in the end their children would be better off...

...right?

...wrong!

Now, the kids are left being raised by those who have no real vested interest in what their future will become...to the daycare they are simply $$

Dad earns the money for the family, from the sweat of his brow [his curse]

and...dad likes to share...he will share his curse with mom.

Now mom can go out and work too...and the money she makes they can pay to those who won't raise the kids as well as they would.

Then mom can come home and do all the house duties...because dad's sharing schedule works in only one direction.

Now, the kids don't get to see mom or dad...all day.

Dad and mom have two totally different lives...apart from one another.

This doesn't promote unity...as our escalating divorce rate shows.

But the money is rolling in and that is good for the kids...right?

Wrong!

The only generations who profitted from the double income were the ones at the very beginning.

We live in a supply and demand world. This means that the more money a household makes the more money everything else will eventually cost.

If the average home makes 20,000 a year, and no one can afford 300,000 dollar homes then it is only a matter of time where the home builders lower their prices or go broke...the opposite is also true.

We have prepared a future for our kids where many of them will not be able to afford a home...unless they too become "dinks"...double income, no kids.

If you want to make a change in what the future is to become it might mean that you will have to tighten your belt up and suffer a bit for it.


If you are newly married I have some good advice for you.

If you are both working until children come...that's cool.

Guard yourselves against temptation. Live off of the husbands pay check, and put the wifes pay check into savings or future childrens school funds, etc.

If you live on both salaries then this will make giving one up very hard...you are used to eating steak and will find yourself eating Kraft dinner.

If you want best for you children...then you spend time with them, you raise them...because you love them best.