Starting a business is a natural for women who want to work but need to stay home with kids.
Whether we are home with kids, have become empty nesters or never took the relationship leap, making time for every element of life we hold dear often means working evenings and sacred weekends as we text, email, Skype and kiss foreheads goodnight.
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Should I make a play for the corner office, or stay home with the kids?
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I'm also a nice, honest, loyal person who'd gladly have a family and stay home with my kids.
If they quit their jobs and stay home with the kids, they will be unhappy ( Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003).
He should be home laughing with kids or still serving his country.
Two in 10 Millennial dads feel parenthood is a burden and 36% admit they would lose their minds if they had to stay home with their kids every day.
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Which is why women are more likely than men to abandon a paying job to stay home with the kids, or seek out jobs that are more fulfilling than lucrative.
Some families where either the mom or dad decided to stay at home with their kids during the early years have decided against going back to the corporate craziness and instead are choosing entrepreneurship.
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While the mainframe was safely locked away in a glass box or an off-site data center, iPads and mobile phones often end up on the sofa or floor at home, with kids using them.
Affleck and Garner worked out a system in which they would take turns making a film, which mostly ends up with her being home with the kids, because they've had an infant every time he has directed.
When you do have the fulfillment of being at home with the kids, there is a slight pang of guilt nudging you to work on that memo, that proposal, read those news stories, think through that new client pitch.
With Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett as a couple that gets in trouble in Morocco, Adriana Barraza as their housekeeper and nanny back home with the kids in San Diego, and Rinko Kikuchi as a teen-age girl in Tokyo desperate for the embrace of a man.
"It's Christmas time and he's knee-deep in battle, and she's home with two young kids, " he said.
Hobbs is an actor, famous for playing "America's favorite dad" on TV, who decides to stay at home with his three kids after his sitcom comes to an end and his wife (Alanna Ubach) goes back to work as an actress.
Matt Snoddy was home with his wife and kids when a friend called.
Take Sheryl Sandberg, the Facebook COO, and her recent admission that she leaves work at 5:30 in order to be home for dinner with her kids.
Clinton continued with his trademark dishonesty in saying that the Republicans proposed to cut Medicaid by a third, which would hurt poor kids, nursing home care for seniors and people with disabilities, and kids with special needs like Downs Syndrome or Autism.
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Instead of illegal immigrants voluntarily taking their children to their home countries with them, the kids are seized by authorities and given to other people through the foster care system.
With three kids at home, it takes the energy to be a father or a mother.
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When kids move back home with parents, it puts parents in the complicated position of wanting to support their children while trying to help them launch their own lives.
Memmer had noticed before the trip to the amusement park that he would get winded walking up the stairs in his home and had trouble keeping up with his kids while they were playing.
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If this is true, it has to do with the fact that although stereotypical gender roles for women have changed, with more men staying home to raise the kids as mom brings home the bacon and father cooks it, societal expectations for mothers remain rooted firmly in the traditional.
Pecknold is now 46, with a wife and kids, a home in Southport, Conn.
With two kids in school the costly home is a screaming bargain.
Just ask Sheryl Sandberg the mom-in-chief Facebook COO who made it her business in 2012 to tell working women everywhere that, no, it may not be easy to achieve work-life balance with a demanding job and kids at home, but if they really wanted it bad enough, it could be theirs.
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What costumes can I make in the next two hours? and What do I do with my kids' candy when they get home?
Thanking a sponsor, say Home Depot, is right up there with kudos to wives and kids.
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When the children get home, the parents are too tired to help the kids with their homework, let alone setting down and having a "Family Dinner", with everyone at the table.
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