"Consider a different calculus. The house that's a little smaller, a little farther from the trendy part of town, the one that doesn't photograph as well – that house might also be the one where a parent can be home when the school bus arrives. The vacation that doesn't make anyone jealous might be the one the kids remember longest. The family that looks, from the outside, like it 'settled' might be the one that figured something out the rest of us are still chasing.
This is not an argument against ambition, or careers, or the legitimate desire of men and women to build professional lives that matter to them. It is simply a suggestion that the cultural machinery pushing Americans toward bigger and 'better' may have a cost. And that cost is sometimes paid in the very currency that three-in-four Americans say they value most: time with the people they love, their family."
-Nexus article on why a second income may not be vital, here
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