Dual Income Household Quotes

At the time of my second marriage, my husband was in his early 50s, I was in my mid-40s, and we each had two kids. We maintained our individual accounts and opened one for the house. We each kick the same percentage of our incomes into the house account and have a joint credit card. But we pay for our children separately.

Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

In military families, the service member is frequently the breadwinner. Constant moves make steady employment a challenge for non-military spouses.

I'm not going to lay about after my career. My wife will work, too.

In my case, I was born to parents who were very young, and I don't think they were entirely ready to have a child. My dad was going to college and working two or three jobs at the same time, and my mum was working and going to school.

Even after marriage it is possible for a woman to have a career.

Look at all the marriages that have been wonderfully successful where fellows finished their army service and came home to go to college on G.I. bills and their wives worked.

An unmarried adult who cannot navigate the welfare system has no choice but to work, but a married working parent is constantly evaluating the relative merits of staying home with the kids versus bringing home that second paycheck.

We lived above my father's launderette. Both my parents ran the launderette, but my father was also a factory supervisor, and my mum worked part-time in an accounts office.

Not too many people can afford for the wife to stay home and raise the kids.

When I signed with WWE and moved to Orlando, my wife and my two kids came with me.

I was from such a large family that when I first met my wife, I told her: 'You can go work outside of the house and I'll stay home and continue making my cartoon strips. Maybe I'll make some commercials nearby, you know I'll do anything locally, but I would love to just stay at home and raise the kids like I did when I was growing up.'

Most Americans actually need to have both people working, and it's a luxury and something to celebrate if you can make a choice like this. And this choice isn't for everyone. But it's nice to not have to worry about what time does daycare close.

I'm an office manager for Office Max. I have two daughters. I'm married. I have a normal job.

An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.

If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.

When you're both actors, it is feast or famine financially and emotionally in your marriage.

I knew that I always wanted to work even after I got married.

Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.