Stay at home dad's. is the public opinion changing?

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was at a friends place the other night with about 5 other couples to celebrate my good friends engagement, we ended up on the topic of stay at home dads.

a few days ago i heard an atricle saying that its becoming more and more common that women are starting to be the bread winner of a family. then we got on the topic where we (as a majority of the group) believed that a large problem with some of the kids around the canberra area is that they are not parented at a younger age to get basic life skills and learning what is an appropriate way to behave/ treat others, and this is because both parents work fulltime jobs and the kids are in day care 5 days a week and they dont raise their kids.

now i understand the reasoning behind this as i understand end of the day if you need money to survive you need it.

and in the group there was two of us that it will be likely that the female will earn a bit more but also an amount that you could raise a family on the single wage. myself being one of these my partner has just finished her IT degree and has got a job as a IT advisor for one of the big4 accounting companies and the other has just finished an engineering.

so whats your opinion is 'stay at home dad' still a dirty thing to say?