[quote=Blogstar]It doesn’t seem logical to me that any legal definition of the value of household work would ever be more than half national median household income. Even that is pretty extreme. If a stay at home worker sucked that off median household income families below and at the level and for some $ above would be doomed.
A person managing household investments in community is getting half the gains already.
Stay at home parents should be grateful that their partners consider them to be pulling their weight. The deal the stay at home is getting ,if they in fact they want to stay home, is better than good.[/quote]
Put down your beverage and try to make some more sense here, whiny pants! 😉
SAHPs are not “sucking that off” of anything. They are *contributing* to the household, not taking away.
How do you figure that a SAHP’s work is only worth half of the median income? Have you ever gotten estimates from people who perform these services? Obviously not.
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“How do you figure out the value of those hours spent in the home, where no one ever earns wages for wiping noses or countertops? The paper simply calculates what it would cost to pay a domestic worker to do the work. The value for individual families is big: it increases personal income 30 percent. But the effect on the economy is also huge. If this work were incorporated when measuring GDP, it would have raised it by 26 percent in 2010.“
And this organization is trying to educate people about the value of unpaid labor in developing countries. It goes into the many reasons why this needs to be done.
