I support myself. My wife and I together - it's all our household. I'm really proud of that.
Regardless, we are a two career household, and it's Dario's season, and I'm really excited about going racing.
My mum was working in Walmart for €350 per month, about £280. My father was working as a house painter. We had a difficult situation with money.
If you're struggling to make your mortgage payment, and you've got three kids between the ages of 12 and 18, and you and your spouse works, and someone says, 'Oh, by the way, the world's ending,' it's like, 'Please. You don't need to tell me that.'
Most families rely on two incomes to make ends meet, and when a woman earns less, we put working families at a huge disadvantage.
...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.
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 worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
Generally, what I try to do is always have a money gig and an art gig.
People always ask me, 'Why did your wife take that extra job?' What they don't know is that four out of five days a week she's going to be home having dinner with us by five o'clock.
I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.
I had a very hard-working father and a very hard-working mother. My dad was someone that would get up at 5 in the morning and work 'til 4 in the afternoon and then had a hobby he made money with. After he'd get home, he'd have a meal and have a drink and then flow right into that, trying to provide.
I run a printing press from where I get my bread. If at all I get any butter, it comes from acting.
Women now have to put so much attention into their careers, and not many families can pull off a single income.
I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
Great preschools are no easier to build than great high schools, and if you think your kids might be better off in the care of a parent or with some extended family member, then a system designed around a dual-income plus day care norm will likewise feel like a burden, or a trap.
It's tough when you have to be away. But I'm probably at home more than my dad was because he was working two or three jobs sometimes.
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
If you're a young couple when you start out and are both working, trying to raise children, that is tough.
I am lucky because I do fine art, and that is half of my living. And then illustration provides the other half.
Most families need both parents to work. Moms need to be able to work and earn fair pay and have the flexibility in their jobs to also be primary caretakers.
If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.
My father worked two jobs. He assembled speakers during the day, and then he sold real estate at night and on weekends. And then he eventually, when he was in his mid-50s, became a full-time real estate salesman.
If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife.
