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12-18-2008 3:14 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/48b490b6-95a0-4bc8-9717-71ef7c45630c/E7824F49-2E3E-4581-9609-5AE612BD406B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/" href="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thesimpledollar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/"><H3 class="post-title"><A class="post-title-link" href="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/">The Two-Career Assumption</A>
<A class="comment-summary" href="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/#comments"><SPAN class="comment-count">33</SPAN><SPAN class="comment-label">comments</SPAN></A>                             </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/"><P><A title="F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1935 by David Silvette, Oil on canvas by cliff1066 on Flickr!" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nostri-imago/3009099385/"><IMG border="0" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3036/3009099385_4f0cc26241_m.jpg" alt="F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1935 by David Silvette, Oil on canvas by cliff1066 on Flickr!" /></A>One of the biggest assumptions I see in married couples my age is that both partners must be pursuing a career.  In almost every married couple I know, both partners are engaged in full-time employment, attempting to earn the largest combined wage possible. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2008/12/17/the-two-career-assumption/"><P>Sometimes, it’s necessary.  One of our closest friends earns about $13 an hour at her full time job, roughly the same as her husband makes, but they have three children at home and a mortgage and it’s simply impossible for either one of them to consider something else.  If only one of them were employed, they would barely miss some of the cutoffs for government aid, so that’s not an option for them, either.  In fact, they’re only able to make ends meet thanks to a relative who is providing extremely cheap day care just for their kids.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E7824F49-2E3E-4581-9609-5AE612BD406B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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