<i>Anyone who thinks being a homemaker is not a profession has no clue what it entails.</i><p>I was married to a stay-at-home mom for 12 years.  When she moved into an apartment and left me with the 4,000 square foot house and our three kids I realized just how ridiculously easy being a stay-at-home parent is when you have kids in full day school.  I&#x27;m a software engineer that works 40 hours per week from home and I have no trouble keeping up the house, the kids homework, the kids activities (karate, cheerleading and basketball right now) in addition to a full time job.  For home cleaning and laundry I hire kids from the local university for $10 to $15 per hour from Care.com for a total of 3 hours per week.<p>My soon-to-be-ex wife used to spend over 8 hours per day on Facebook.  Not surprising considering she was literally sitting at home by herself for 8 to 9 hours per day.  Her mom was a stay-at-home mom as well and she used to brag about sitting around at home all day and then when the husband would surprise her by coming home for lunch she would grab the vacuum cleaner and pretend to vacuum.  Keeping up a house and taking care of kids over 5 is not a full-time job.  Don&#x27;t get me wrong - you can make it a full time job by being incredibly inefficient, doing things for your kids that they should be doing on their own and doing inconsequential things that don&#x27;t matter to anyone if they aren&#x27;t done.  But other than that, being a stay-at-home parent is not even close to being equivalent to a full time job.