Many financially well off people seem OK to take this risk unnecessarily. But I guess successful careers are worth it. But consider this, sometimes living with less is actually living with more.

Money can always be made again if lost. Time lost with our kids is never regained. It becomes the seed of rejection we sow IN them that we can expect to harvest FROM them in our own twilight years.

Who’s raising our kids?

Today many parents are forced with the difficult choice of spending time with their kids, or providing for them financially. In many families, there is may be but one parent. Most often, that parent is a woman. She is faced with the difficult task of trying to provide the basic necessities for her child or children. She must do so at the cost of spending time with them.

In 2006, 12.9 million families in the U.S. were headed by a single-parent, 80% of which were headed by a female. Since 1994, the percentage of US households headed by a single parent has remained steady at around nine percent, although it has nearly doubled since 1970.

But there is another trend. One that is affecting the lives of many children as well. Selfish Parenting. Parents who possess the necessary resources to provide a stay-at-home environment for their children, but choose not to in favor of being a two-career marriage. Two separate lives being pursued under the banner of marriage. And, as if observing some right-of-passage, children must also be produced to complete the perfect picture. This usually comes right after the miniature dog. This prepared them for kids you see.

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