{"id":287029,"date":"2026-02-08T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287029\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T09:00:09","slug":"dear-mary-i-resent-how-my-entitled-daughters-in-law-make-a-virtue-out-of-being-stay-at-home-mums-when-my-hard-work-is-paying-for-their-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287029\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Mary: I resent how my entitled daughters-in-law make a virtue out of being stay-at-home mums when my hard work is paying for their lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;They are enjoying a quality of life partially provided by women who worked outside the home, while simultaneously making a virtue of staying at home with their families.&quot; Photo: Getty.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MGstayathome.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;They are enjoying a quality of life partially provided by women who worked outside the home, while simultaneously making a virtue of staying at home with their families.&#8221; Photo: Getty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Question: Myself and my husband, both professionals, worked hard to set up our businesses, and have given back in so many ways and in acts of personal sacrifice. I felt we had set a good example for our children, all sons. Every opportunity was given to them, the best education and practical and financial support, to set them up in life. I am proud to say they are doing well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It is their wives I am at pains to understand. They are stay-at-home mothers. All are highly educated and above average in terms of life experience, and have chosen to stay at home to raise their children. Other women of my age who I know professionally and personally find themselves in a similar situation with their daughters-in-law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;They are enjoying a quality of life partially provided by women who worked outside the home, while simultaneously&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,6361,35746,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-287029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-life-magazine","10":"tag-mary-oconor","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}