To think there is a stigma attached to being a SAHD

[Crushedvelvetcouch]

There is, isn't there?
DH is a SAHD and we seem to illicit quite a few raised eyebrows and thinly veiled insults regarding our family model.

Is there a stigma, if so could you hazard a guess as to why?

Quite prepared to believe that I'm just surrounded by judgemental, ill mannered people if there isn't.

My DH & I have switched rules recently he's the SAHP and I'm the FT breadwinner.
Both of us have noticed how much praise he gets, funnily enough I didn't get any when I did the same.

The most noticeably sexist comments can from his mum, who he tells me was moaning about his sister in law and how she needs to work more as his brother keeps them & doesn't have anything to spend on himself ( forgetting they have a child with SN who is hardwork & her job is term time only so a perfect balance) then with the next breath saying she's disgusted I'm not giving him an 'allowance' or payment for staying at home (he has full access to the joint account where my wages go).

Arggh typo *roles not rules
& to be clear I don't think of my wages as mine it's family money.

Only my MIL judges really.

Hmmmm just your common or garden everyday sexism then.
Fair enough.
Still I will comfort myself with the fact that it is by no means universal and is possibly due to the peculiarities of the beliefs imherent in my corner of the world, which is lovely in many other ways.
But yes, undeniably 'small town and sexist'