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Are these women rejecting everything feminism has worked so hard to achieve? Maybe. Daniel Buccino, a social worker and psychotherapist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, calls such women the ultimate "status symbols," since their lifestyle alerts the rest of the world that the husband makes enough money for the both of them. And the men involved in these arrangements are often happy because, instead of sharing chores equally, their stay-at-home wives manage the domestic front themselves. Look, I would never judge another woman's choices. But I have to say, it would probably give me pause if one of my daughters came to me in twenty years and told me that all she wanted was to spend her days cooking, cleaning and basically taking care of her husband.
And, apparently, I'm not alone. The debate is raging at Babble.com over whether such "stay-at-home wives" are wasting their minds and their educations, or whether more women would choose to be "kept" by their husbands if only said husbands could afford to do so.
