Ask Amy: Homemaker’s devotion is waste of a good career
Dear Amy: My wife and I got married right after college and quickly welcomed our first child.
I knew that having kids would take all of my wife’s attention, therefore, I did not want any more children.
But shortly after the first child came baby number two.
At that point I got a vasectomy.
Twenty years later, I have built a very successful career, while my wife chose to take jobs that would allow her more time with the kids.
She has taken the lead with the kid’s activities, housework, cooking, etc., which I never asked her to do.
She has held various low-paying, “do good”-type positions in the community.
She has a lot of skills and did not have to compromise her career for the children.
There are a lot of successful women doing it all.
My wife has nothing to show for working year after year.
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