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| 3 | Setting boundaries, when is it healthy and when does it turn bad? | Discussion | bangarang527 | /r/PurplePillDebate | 30/04/25 09:13 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job! | Debate | bangarang527 | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 03:49 PM |
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| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah I can understand that, I guess I came from blue collar where you work 12-14 hours a day in summer heat and winter freeze 80+ hours a week so after that staying home with my child was a freaking vacation. Plus I actually wanted to spend time with my child unlike a lot of people on here lol | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/06/25 01:28 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Sure but live in nanny’s generally also clean and cook, so let’s say you pay them 1000 a week on top of room and board, that’s 48,000 a year, your wife goes back to work and earns the median salary for females in the US 41,000, it just cost you $7000 a year plus room and board to have your wife go to work! Congratulations! | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/06/25 01:24 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!It’s extremely concerning, I stayed home with my child until he went into kindergarten. It was extremely rewarding. My wife worked and I felt 100% compensated by having all my needs that and still being able to stay home with my child, I would’ve never even dared to claim that it was an unpaid job. It was a luxury to be able to stay home with my child and have everything I needed provided by someone else. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 04/06/25 01:20 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!You do realize nanny’s don’t watch their own kids right? So that’s absolutely ridiculous. The entitlement to think someone deserves all that for raising their own children lol | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 11:29 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!half the compensation after all of the monthly bills and expenses are paid, I would be ok with that but there would be damn near nothing left ha, | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 10:57 PM |
| 1 | Turns out the "female gaze" is not that different from what redpill claims women wantIs this the woman who wanted to prove being a man was easy? So she pretended to be a man went out on dates and found out how much worse off she was then wrote a book about it and killed herself? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 10:52 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Na the divorce lawyers would pull their tricks and she would get everything as usual so she would be covered, she would get full custody of kids she would win the house she would get half of the savings, half of his retirement plus child support, and alimony, and since he owns his own business she would get half of that also, that’s usually how it works | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 10:43 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!I’m just saying it’s the same scenario as expecting to be paid for watching your own kids | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 10:41 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, generally babysitting and pay only accounts for kids that are not your own… I walk my dogs every day, but I don’t expect to be paid as a dog walker just because someone does that for a job also | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 10:06 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!When I was a stay at home dad every day was a vacation, Sure I did chores in the morning and made dinner every night, but there was a good four or five hours every day where we went and played at the park or played out at the river. Built forts, went on walks, had lunch dates, it was the best | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 09:55 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, they’re clearly not OK with it if they’re standing in public places or on public forums bitching about the unpaid labor of raising children | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 09:41 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!I’m not sure what that has to do with this conversation at all But I would bet she would get child support and alimony at this point But also why should she be guaranteed this easy life if they decided to separate? What entitles her to a life on easy street? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 09:38 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Lots of speculation there…. But Choosing to have a child and then being upset that nobody pays you an hourly rate for taking care of your own decisions is wild, accountability is tough I know | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 09:34 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!I know 2 people trading child care for room and board right now haha it’s not an uncommon phenomenon with rent prices the way they are child care is 1000 a month, a good one bedroom apartment right now is 1800$ child care is actually cheap comparatively | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 08:55 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!No, childcare would not be something I would ever want to do, but two people watching over a room of 20 small children is a whole lot different than they stay at home parent watching two of their own children by far | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 08:34 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Sorry I got jumbled in the long line of comments yes if she were single with no children, she could certainly make more money, same with the man if had no children or woman he would most likely be much more well off financially, but this post is about households with children so it’s not applicable really | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 08:03 PM |
| 3 | Raising children an unpaid job!I took care of him until he turned 5 and started going to school, then I went back to work. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 07:53 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!If she was a single woman then this whole conversation wouldn’t be relevant…. When I gave an example of what I witnessed about a woman that was a highly luxurious life but at the end of my statement, I talked about how more average household there is still compensation or perks for being stay at home parent, | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 07:52 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!How is it counter intuitive? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 07:43 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Nope, all I can do is base it on averages, and the average say that if you were to split your bills down the middle it would roughly cost the same as what the average individual would make in a year, therefore being a stay at home parent has roughly the same benefits as one would have if they work instead of have their bills paid for them | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 07:37 PM |
| 3 | Raising children an unpaid job!I can only speak from experience and I can tell you that when I was staying home, there was not any real chores to do once my wife got home, time management is one of my strong suites and if you have 40+ hours a week to Maintian the house hold it got done 90% of the time, the thing that people are not willing to admit is post at home parents spend a large amount of time staring at their phones, watching tv or other forms of being unproductive, | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 07:08 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, but the whole premise is absolutely stupid comparing raising your own children that you chose to have to slavery is completely asinine, and then saying that many women are choosing not to have children because of it, I think you will find that men are also choosing not to have children because of aspects of the same scenario but the fact is you have the choice to have or not have children, but acting like taking responsibility for your own choices to have children is somehow equal to slave… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 07:04 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, but the whole premise is absolutely stupid comparing raising your own children that you chose to have to slavery is completely asinine, and then saying that many women are choosing not to have children because of it, I think you will find that men are also choosing not to have children because of aspects of the same scenario but the fact is you have the choice to have or not have children, but acting like taking responsibility for your own choices to have children is somehow equal to slave… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:53 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, but the whole premise is absolutely stupid comparing raising your own children that you chose to have to slavery is completely asinine, and then saying that many women are choosing not to have children because of it, I think you will find that men are also choosing not to have children because of aspects of the same scenario but the fact is you have the choice to have or not have children, but acting like taking responsibility for your own choices to have children is somehow equal to slave… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:52 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, but the whole premise is absolutely stupid comparing raising your own children that you chose to have to slavery is completely asinine, and then saying that many women are choosing not to have children because of it, I think you will find that men are also choosing not to have children because of aspects of the same scenario but the fact is you have the choice to have or not have children, but acting like taking responsibility for your own choices to have children is somehow equal to slave… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:52 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, but the whole premise is absolutely stupid comparing raising your own children that you chose to have to slavery is completely asinine, and then saying that many women are choosing not to have children because of it, I think you will find that men are also choosing not to have children because of aspects of the same scenario but the fact is you have the choice to have or not have children, but acting like taking responsibility for your own choices to have children is somehow equal to slave… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:52 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Thank you!! | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:38 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Thank you!! | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:38 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, if you wanna break it down to exact numbers, we can do that, let me give you the numbers based off research, in the US, the median income for women is $42110, the median cost of a home with 2 adults and 2 children is 96,000, median cost of a household with no children is 76,000 in the US, so if you take the expenses with children and split them in half the median annual expense per adult would be 48,000 dollars that means it would cost on average a woman $6000 more a year to live than they… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:37 PM |
| -1 | Raising children an unpaid job!I’m not saying you are very irrelevant. I’m saying that obviously in your life you would want to do things differently if you can earn 150 K a year plus all of the benefits then you would be better suited to continue working and have your significant other stay home with the children so that your significant other could complain about how they stay at home with the children and it’s unfair etc etc. Or you could go to work and make your 150 K a year and your significant other go to work and make … | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:26 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, in this situation, the man owns his own electrical company and he works about 40 hours a week mostly in office, basic 9 to 5 spends a lot of time with his kids, take longer vacations, helps coach the sports teams, he honestly has a great life and has provided a very good life for his wife and children. This is partly why I was so offended by her comments. She is my cousin and her husband is great | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:22 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Sure, the standard work week probably is less, and like another person said earlier a lot of people saying that child raising is more difficult. I’ve never actually had to work a difficult job so it makes sense. Where I live it is a lot of blue-collar jobs where people are going to work at 4 in the morning. And not getting home till 8 o’clock at night or later. So they understand what hard work really is I suppose | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:19 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!I think that that could be a fair assumption that people who think childcare is a hard job have never actually worked a hard job so they don’t actually know, ignorance is bliss | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:16 PM |
| -1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yes, I used the example that was brought to my attention, but I also ended it by comparing it to a more regular family, like I said above the average income in the us is 50k the average cost of a household in the us is almost 80k, that being said the average Joe could not step out and afford the average cost of life on their own, as a matter of fact if you took the 80k and split the expenses in half that would be a credit ok 40k per partner which is almost average income anyways. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:09 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yes, those nine states do this automatically, but many other states have adopted that way of thinking as well, most blue states | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 06:04 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yeah, I’ve had jobs in the past, but that absolutely would be a more fair trade, and when I was a stay at home parent it is what I got and I felt very blessed to be able to stay home with my child every day, most rewarding time of my life, I would take that over roofing, concrete, paving or any of the other blue collar jobs that I had in my life, and some of them payed over 100k a year | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:40 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!That’s sad I’m sorry, I would go back to being a stay at home every day of the week, to be able to spend that much time with my children watching them grow, it was the most rewarding time of my life | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:31 PM |
| – | Raising children an unpaid job!You are a special kind of stupid, please don’t vote or reproduce | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:29 PM |
| 5 | Raising children an unpaid job!I’ve already seen a lot of that, on here and in real life, I know almost just as many stay at home dad’s as I do stay at home mom’s, the Dad’s will tell you that it’s freaking awesome, and my mom will tell you it’s the hardest job ever with no compensation | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:28 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!So what are we considering the given perks of it then? Generally, if a couple is together and no children both are expected to contribute to a percentage the bills and expenses and then fund their own hobbies and luxuries. So if one parent does not work outside the home and the other parent covers all expenses of everything what is the proper term for that? Because I know right now if I were to enter a relationship where we had no children and I wanted to stay home and not contribute to any of t… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:25 PM |
| – | Raising children an unpaid job!Right I never asked if it was a “job”I asked if it was an “unpaid job” I’m not questioning the job part but the unpaid part Dipshit | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:19 PM |
| 3 | Raising children an unpaid job!No, I can’t admit some days. It is tough. Mentally and physically even emotionally…. But most days stayed home with my young child was very pleasant, I would take it over asphalt, roofing, concrete, or any other blue collar job I’ve had any day | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:14 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!I actually never asked if it was a job or not… embarrassing again | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:11 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Haha I have heard many many parents male and female say it’s much easier than working a full time job. Could you imagine actually thinking that I am the only person ever to say that… ever… how extremely unlikely…. That statement is almost embarrassing. | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:10 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, then, I guess taking care of your own children is not a “job” | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:07 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!I’m not sure what state you in and it definitely could be different there, but where I live anything obtained during marriage regardless of who paid or who’s on title is a marital asset and is divided upon divorce | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:06 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!I never made up any imaginary woman for anything and I’m not sure what the rest of your nonsense jabbering is about either but I guess if you can’t win a debate that you will go to is to personally attack the other person | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 05:02 PM |
| -3 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yes, but you are probably in the top 5% of earnings in the US, average earnings in America is 50 grand a year, which means half of the US population makes less than that, your income is not the norm, not even close so it’s pointless to factor for the masses | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:57 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!They could yes but they chose to have children lol they could also get a job and pay for daycare but it’s usually a wash and they decide to just stay home | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:54 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Actually, when you get home, you should help with the kids and chores so it’s not a sign out done for the day, but when you go to the cubicle, you also don’t get to stay in your pajamas all day, watch tv, take your children to the park, the pool, out for breakfast, people act like being a stay at home. Parents is a jail sentence but when I was staying home with my son, we spent most days playing outside having a blast, I spent the mornings and chores then we would go play then I would be back in… | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:53 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!I can completely see where you are coming from on this one, but I would still argue that regardless they are compensated. If I quit my job today and went home and spent my whole day sitting at home, nobody is going to pay for me to have a vehicle. I have a place to live get my haircut or anything else. But if I was a stay at home parent they would | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:50 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!Exactly I agree completely. I was a stay at home dad my son turned five. It was a blast and I enjoyed it thoroughly. It was 100 times better than the blue-collar job that I go to every day, and I am very well compensated at my job and I would still trade it all to go back | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:46 PM |
| -2 | Raising children an unpaid job!I understand that, but on the other side of it, the women also feel like it belongs to them as they have done their part and put in the work to earn it, that indefinitely makes it a compensation for work provided, you cannot claim that you are uncompensated and then at the time of divorce claim that half of everything accrued is yours, because that would mean that you were being compensated all along | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:45 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, I’m not looking for an ultimate answer or whether it’s fair or not. I just don’t like the narrative of stay at home parents being not at all compensated, everything we have and everything we do cost money if you don’t have a job that means you are not bringing an income, which means everything you have is being provided to you by someone else, if that’s someone else fighting all that for you knows you are home parent then that is compensation | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:42 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Sorry I shouldn’t have said most what I should have said is around 50% which is what the statistics say which still proves my point | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:39 PM |
| -4 | Raising children an unpaid job!Maybe not tho, average income in the us is around 53k most people can not live on just over 4k a month in today’s market | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:37 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Right can you imagine the entitlement to think that you should be paid to take responsibility for the consequences of your own actions? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:33 PM |
| -1 | Raising children an unpaid job!So these are things that are being provided to her that she does not have to provide for her self or the children “compensation” | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:33 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Surrogate is a 100k lol it’s not actually but that’s a funny way to think about it considering 50% of pregnancy’s are accidental due to carelessness | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:31 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!I don’t think slaves had electricity, warm water,cell phones, vehicles, heat, nice bed, pets, good food, good clothes, or a safe environment among many other things | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:26 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Heavily depends on your lifestyle I suppose | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:24 PM |
| 0 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yes, you are correct kids Do need these things but there are quite a few moms out there who have to raise their children and work to provide all of those things for themselves, they do not have it provided for them | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:14 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!I also understand being isolated at home is very difficult, but is being at home with all of your own things worse than being stuck in a cubicle? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:12 PM |
| 2 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, let’s base it off of a regular stay at home parent, they are provided somewhere to live. They are provided a vehicle they are provided insurance for that vehicle. They are provided fuel to put in. They are provided food. They are provided clothes. They are providing electricity. They may be provided health insurance. The list goes on is this not still considered compensation? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:11 PM |
| 1 | Raising children an unpaid job!Yes, but generally, they still have a place to live, food, a vehicle and everything else necessary for survival provided to them, is this not compensation? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:08 PM |
| 4 | Raising children an unpaid job!I agree | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:02 PM |
| -6 | Raising children an unpaid job!Well, maybe not that degree but let’s say you have a car that runs and drives a roof over your head, food, warmth, etc is that not compensation? | /r/PurplePillDebate | 03/06/25 04:00 PM |
| 1 | Alimony laws force men to provide after the relationship ends. Men seek sex and affection. No laws force women to uphold that role in or outside of the relationship.I hope so | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/05/25 02:04 PM |
| 3 | Alimony laws force men to provide after the relationship ends. Men seek sex and affection. No laws force women to uphold that role in or outside of the relationship.With divorce rates that means 60,000 to 85,000 people a year are being ordered to pay alimony | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/05/25 02:00 PM |
| 0 | Alimony laws force men to provide after the relationship ends. Men seek sex and affection. No laws force women to uphold that role in or outside of the relationship.Yeah 10% is nothing to gawk at, if anything happens 10 percent of the time I wouldn’t consider it rare, I would consider it an absolute possibility | /r/PurplePillDebate | 16/05/25 01:57 PM |
| 4 | Alimony laws force men to provide after the relationship ends. Men seek sex and affection. No laws force women to uphold that role in or outside of the relationship.It’s not only awarded when one person has no means of supporting oneself, I know 4 people in there 40s paying alimony to woman that are college graduates and perfectly able to support themselves but choose not to, when the alimony runs out they will get jobs and support themselves like they should have been for the last 5+ years | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/05/25 10:57 PM |
| -11 | Alimony laws force men to provide after the relationship ends. Men seek sex and affection. No laws force women to uphold that role in or outside of the relationship.Haha wrong | /r/PurplePillDebate | 15/05/25 10:10 PM |
| 2 | Cheating should be illegalYes, child support is for the children, but I would also point out that being unable to keep marital vows doesn’t shed a good light or give me faith that you will be much of a parent either | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/05/25 06:06 PM |
| 1 | Cheating should be illegalThey do that anyways lol | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/05/25 03:26 PM |
| 2 | Cheating should be illegalYes, I agree they should but I also agree that there should be a basic set of agreements that come with marriage also | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/05/25 02:30 PM |
| -1 | Cheating should be illegalLoss of rights to any and all marital assets | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/05/25 02:16 PM |
| 0 | Cheating should be illegalRegardless of how you look at it entering a marriage is a legal contract between two individuals, cheating should absolutely be seen as a breach of contract, which would be illegal, when the party separate and one party has cheated that party should be awarded absolutely nothing from marital assets. Should be common sense | /r/PurplePillDebate | 11/05/25 02:15 PM |
| 2 | Setting boundaries, when is it healthy and when does it turn bad?Yes, but I would argue that it’s pretty controlling to use somebody’s insecurity of being abandoned to modify their behaviors and actions, that’s very controlling actually, you better stop doing blank or I’ll break up with you. You better stop doing blank or I’ll leave you and I’ll take your children away. Etc | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/05/25 12:47 PM |
| 1 | Setting boundaries, when is it healthy and when does it turn bad?This makes a lot of sense you’re probably the third person to say exactly that it’s sad these days that people will be controlling under the guise of a boundary, but honestly, I would bet that a large majority of people don’t actually know what a boundary is supposed to look like | /r/PurplePillDebate | 01/05/25 12:42 PM |
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