2004 — Susan Jeanne Douglas & Meredith W. Michaels, The Mommy Myth: The Idealization of Motherhood and How It Has Undermined All Women, Free Press (2004), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
“If Bobbi, a SAHM of eight, can do it, I can't complain, can I?”
2005 — Meredith Efken, SAHM I Am, Steeple Hill Books (2005), →ISBN, page 83:
I've been thinking recently about the importance of taking my job as a SAHM seriously.
2005 — Mary Goulet & Heather Reider, The MomsTown Guide to Getting It All: A Life Makeover for Stay-at-Home Moms, Hyperion (2005), →ISBN, page 250:
SAHMs don't get a paycheck, which can sometimes mean we feel invalidated.
2005 — Amy Scheibe, What Do You Do All Day?, Picador (2006), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
Like me, Penny is an SAHM, but she still manages to choreograph and perform a show at the Joyce Theater every year.
2005 — Amanda Boyd, "Klatching Up", Cincinnati Magazine, April 2005:
In this crazy-busy world where we all juggle work, home, family, and a zillion other responsibilities, we working gals and SAHMs (that's stay-at-home moms) can get our recommended allowance of gossip without the suburb or the breakfast nook […]
2007 — Karrie McAllister, Small Town Soup: Good for What Ails You, Lulu (2007), →ISBN, page 50:
And I, being a SAHM, have a little debunking to do myself.
2009 — Laura Schlessinger, In Praise of Stay-at-Home Moms, Harper (2010), →ISBN, page 45:
I took our son everywhere with me, and frankly, that is one of the best parts of being a SAHM: when you have your child with you and you're both involved in some outside activities, you not only have more bonding time, but your child is exposed to a wide range of real-world activities and people […]
2011 — Samantha Parent Walravens, Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career & the Conflict of Modern Motherhood, Coffeetown Press (2011), →ISBN, page 196:
In the most radical cases, a SAHM might suffer from all these maladies at once, and her life becomes a Sisyphean struggle to maintain body, home, children and community work, according to unimpeachable standards.
2012 — Erin Flynn Jay, Mastering the Mommy Track: Juggling Career and Kids in Uncertain Times, Business Books (2012), →ISBN, page 62:
'Up until the economic downturn, a lot of men irrespective of demographics and socio-economics still refused, denied or simply didn't realize how hard it is to be a SAHM. Until circumstances forced them to make the change to becoming a SAHD (at least for the time being),' Seppinni said.
