Which of these do you think is the best family?

[Willy Woz]

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[Willy Woz]

In my opinion I don't care which parent works and which stays at home, but I believe having both parents work is seriously immoral.

[Senator Ben]

You haven't given us any information about the families.

[War on Want]

Both parents work. Both my parents worked, and I turned out okay.

[Secretary Polnut]

There is no such thing as a "best" family.

[Snowguy716]

There is no such thing as a "best" family.

Yes there is, silly!  It's the one where the wife submits to the husband and they are active in their church and the children don't listen to bad music or dance, but instead read the Bible whenever they have impure thoughts and then ruthlessly try to impose their opinions and way of life on everybody else!

[Secretary Polnut]

There is no such thing as a "best" family.

Yes there is, silly!  It's the one where the wife submits to the husband and they are active in their church and the children don't listen to bad music or dance, but instead read the Bible whenever they have impure thoughts and then ruthlessly try to impose their opinions and way of life on everybody else!

Bugger... completely forgot about that one!

[IDS Judicial Overlord John Dibble]

It's completely situational, so there isn't a 'best' type of family just as Polnut said.

[Gabu]

I would certainly prefer a situation where both families work but love their children dearly as opposed to one where the wife stays home and beats her kid.

[Hatman]

Father stays at home. It's our turn damnit! lol

[Sensei]

It depends. The man or the woman can be a big-money CEO, or both could be working mowing lawns.

[Padfoot]

I think the stay-at-home dad family is best b/c that's the kind of family I want to have.  Now I just need to find some rich corporate woman to marry so I can be her trophy husband.

[jokerman]

I think the stay-at-home dad family is best b/c that's the kind of family I want to have.  Now I just need to find some rich corporate woman to marry so I can be her trophy husband.

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

[Gabu]

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

"Manly vigor" is, in one way or another, pretty much the cause of nearly every war in existence.  We could do without it.

[Padfoot]

I think the stay-at-home dad family is best b/c that's the kind of family I want to have.  Now I just need to find some rich corporate woman to marry so I can be her trophy husband.

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

Oh please.  If given the choice between hanging around the house with you kids in sweat pants or sitting in a cubicle in an uncomfortable suit which would you choose?

[dead0man]

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

"Manly vigor" is, in one way or another, pretty much the cause of nearly every war in existence.  We could do without it.

Thank God you're not one of those delusional people that religion is cause of nearly every war.

[Gabu]

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

"Manly vigor" is, in one way or another, pretty much the cause of nearly every war in existence.  We could do without it.

Thank God you're not one of those delusional people that religion is cause of nearly every war.

Religion is a convenient excuse.  There are many wars that were not fought over religion; however, there are not exactly very many wars in which the leader of at least one side (and often both) was not a man with an ego the size of a small planet.

[Tender Branson]

Both parents work. Both my parents worked, and I turned out okay.

No.  Trust me, you did not.

I think the stay-at-home dad family is best b/c that's the kind of family I want to have.  Now I just need to find some rich corporate woman to marry so I can be her trophy husband.

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

Oh please.  If given the choice between hanging around the house with you kids in sweat pants or sitting in a cubicle in an uncomfortable suit which would you choose?

It's not a matter between working and not working.  It's about having ambition, of making something out of yourself.  Do you have any dreams, any goals, or do you just want to sit around the house all day and post on the atlas forum?

That said, most women live this kind of life.  These are the traditional women, not the feminists (who are very stupid.  Why work when someone else can support you?).  There are some anti-feminists today who consider the man working and the wife staying at home to be a badge of honor, when it is only manipulation of the shrewdest sort.

[Friz]

Both parents working.  Means more money rolling in.  It's only a bad thing when they become more attached to their work than their kids, which I have never seen happen often.

[opebo]

In the ideal family no one works - all members live upon the income from the family ownership status.  I would prefer no children, but if they must be, they should be cared for by various nannies, cooks, and other serviles, and then sent to boarding school.

Even the household of a single person who must work for a living is far from ideal, and having a family under such circumstances is just asking for troubles.

[jokerman]

I think the stay-at-home dad family is best b/c that's the kind of family I want to have.  Now I just need to find some rich corporate woman to marry so I can be her trophy husband.

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

Oh please.  If given the choice between hanging around the house with you kids in sweat pants or sitting in a cubicle in an uncomfortable suit which would you choose?

I'll choose work and accomplishment.  I'm an ambitious person.

[Verily]

How I mourn the decline of manly vigour in our society.

"Manly vigor" is, in one way or another, pretty much the cause of nearly every war in existence.  We could do without it.

Thank God you're not one of those delusional people that religion is cause of nearly every war.

Religion is a convenient excuse.  There are many wars that were not fought over religion; however, there are not exactly very many wars in which the leader of at least one side (and often both) was not a man with an ego the size of a small planet.

Agreed. Religion is a major enabler, but it doesn't cause wars, pretty much ever. Other exacerbating circumstances have to exist for religious tensions to cause problems, and not all (or even most, although modern times with the idea of the singular nation-state as ethnically, linguistically and religiously homogeneous have increased the number which do devolve; same for the other factors mentioned, of course) religiously tense situations devolve into warfare.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

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That's how my family has been for generations. I am thinking that my wife, whose idea it was, will be my paralegal.

I hope our kids will be able to have access to science in the next 20-30 years that will double their life span to about 165(halving the ageing rate). This way, they will be able to work for 60 years, have kids at 85 while at home to raise them and work part time between 105 and 125 and would be able to be grandparents after that.

[GMantis]

In my opinion I don't care which parent works and which stays at home, but I believe having both parents work is seriously immoral.

Is this a joke?
Do you realise that according to your that most poor people are seriously immoral. Most of the families in Europe and a significant percentage in the US have two working parents, so they're seriously immoral?
What are your arguments for making this astounding statement?

[Hashemite]

Both parents work, but I don't really care.