Re: What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-29 Thread Wilbur07
Robert Seeberger wrote: >> (Overall, 13% of the >>nation's households include a stay-at-home spouse.) >> > That's an amazing figure. I wonder what the figure was in 1953 or even 1963. I think www.census.gov might have the stabistics, if you're wondering. More than likely, the figure was double

Re: What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-28 Thread Julia Thompson
Reggie Bautista wrote: > > Julia wrote: > >We could not buy disability insurance on me. We tried. I don't know if > >it was state law or the insurance company, but I couldn't be insured for > >disability. > > Were you looking while you were pregnant? Lots of insurance companies will > deny dis

Re: What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-28 Thread Reggie Bautista
Julia wrote: We could not buy disability insurance on me. We tried. I don't know if it was state law or the insurance company, but I couldn't be insured for disability. Were you looking while you were pregnant? Lots of insurance companies will deny disability and even life coverage to women who

Re: What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-27 Thread Bryon Daly
From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The economic value of a stay-at-home spouse is closer to $30,000 a year. Our society doesn't place a high dollar value on a homemaker's work, and those who choose to stay home do so at their own economic peril. : The numbers that purport to show otherw

Re: What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-27 Thread Russell Chapman
Robert Seeberger wrote: (Overall, 13% of the nation's households include a stay-at-home spouse.) That's an amazing figure. I wonder what the figure was in 1953 or even 1963. I don't know about the US, but our TV ads for household products typically portray a traditional housewife - makes me thi

Re: What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-27 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: > Insurance coverage takes a holiday > If you doubt the veracity of all this, just try to buy life or disability > insurance on a stay-at-home spouse. We did. Dan could get life insurance for me fairly cheaply through his job. So he did. I'm not sure what I'm insured fo

What is a homemaker worth?

2003-07-26 Thread Robert Seeberger
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CollegeandFamily/P46800.asp What's a homemaker worth? The shocking truth The value of a stay-at-home spouse is priceless in many ways, but don't kid yourself: In economic terms, running a household is worth far less than we've been told. By Liz Pulliam Weston