Both Parents Work? Where's the Canon?

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 47397

lucky_kari at yahoo.ca writes:
> Attack of the fanon, is it? As Ellen states, there is no reference to
> either Lily or James's professions in canon. 

Me:
Yes, I'm afraid so...  There's so many fan fictions out there, and some are just really well-written, so they get ingrained in my mind!  That's why I said "if."  I didn't know exactly where I had gotten that from, but I guess I really liked the idea of husband and wife tag team Aurors.  :)

lucky_kari at yahoo.ca 
> Crouch describes [Mrs. Longbottom] as an auror's wife in the
> Pensieve scene, meaning she most definitely was not an auror. 
<snip>
> We have no information about any of the working witches in the books
> being married (though some of them are said to be single: Bertha
> Jorkins, Rita Skeeter). 
> Molly Weasley stays at home.
<snip>
> And, meanwhile we have Mrs. Fudge, Mrs. Crouch, and Mrs. Diggory
> mentioned, with no indication of what they do, except that they're
> mentioned in connection with their husbands who work at the 
> Ministry.

Me:
Gosh, when you put it that way...does that sound awfully sexist to anybody else?  Only mentioning the wives in connection with their husbands and not really learning anything else about them?  And it being specifically mentioned that the career women are husbandless and childless?  Am I being too American? Is it more common maybe for mothers to stay at home in Britain, rather than to have both a career and a family?

Audra