Irony of Double Income

I guess there are many families who can’t afford living on single income. There are also families who can afford but wanted the extra income for whatever reasons. Here comes the irony of the latter.

Parents who work need to pay babysitters (those who are lucky, will have their parents to help out) to take care of their kid(s) while they’re busy making the extra bucks. That’s what they think. How about thinking about it this way. Parents who work need to pay money to sacrifice time with their kid(s), from the extra bucks earned during the sacrificed time with their kid(s).

Sound like a lose-lose situation to me. Indeed, money has a greater stronghold on people than we think it has. I say that because of people’s reaction when hearing that SL is going to be full-time homemaker, as if it’s abnormal though it is in some sense.