These are all wonderful and positive reasons for choosing at-home mothering. These aren't necessarily bad reasons, but you're likely to find yourself disappointed in full-time parenting if they're your only reasons. While at-home mothering can be fulfilling, it's certainly not springtime in Paris. But if your desire to be with your children is what's motivating you, you'll manage to keep going and even find it worthwhile. Practical Concerns 2.
Most women are pretty surprised how little is left.
If you are a valued employee, you may find that your employer would rather negotiate with you than lose you altogether. There are abundant resources available to the budding entrepreneur. It's a common worry for at-home mothers that the time will come when they'll need outside employment and they won't be able to find a job. Unfortunately, divorce does happen, or the primary wage-earning job disappears, or an emergency in the family requires that more money must appear now. You can't ever be sure it won't happen to you.