Who must keep the income of the family? The Wife or The Husband!

The Wife is the true keeper of the income.Even if the husband is the wage earner,I know that women are the ones who know how to handle the financial affairs of the family.My Mother did it perfectly and now my Wife does it perfectly.Amen. !!!!Lol

My partner and I are both working. Basically, my salary is mine, his salary is his....as we both deserves what we worked for lol. But if I were talking about the family income, then that should mean the combination of my husband's income and mine. So we ought to keep it, arrange, and budget it together, this is what we call TEAMWORK. If companies and jobs etc need teamwork, so marriage does. Through this method, it is possible to avoid an argument about money, money, money, money.. who kept it? who budgeted it? who spent it?..whatsoever.. I like tolerance, co-operation, understanding, and team work when it comes about running a marriage life...and the most important is sharing a task

This is a nice topic. For me, the responsibility of a husband is to make a living to provide for the family. And the responsibility of the wife is to manage for what the husband has provided to her and the family. Thus, the money should be with the wife for her to be able to manage it appropriately. I agree with you, it is the wife who is the housekeeer. Happy mylotting.

I believe that both the wife and the husband should have an equal say about what becomes of the family's income. Neither husband nor wife should shoulder this burden alone. A marriage is a union. Everything should be shared, including the family's income.

Hello! The one who knew how to handle the finances better, and the one who could give better importance to the hard earned money of the couple should be the one that will be given the responsibility of handling family's finances. Budgeting is one vital process in one's family that should be observed and done properly. I believe that there's really a person that good in doing this than others so better determine who among the husband and wife is better doing this to secure family's better financial flow. Goodnight!

In the present time, both husband and wife should work together or else they can't send their kids to school. Nowadays, it's really difficult to make both end meets so both parents should work very very hard. Everything is expensive, food, clothing, fuel,electricity, name it, all of them is expensive! I sometimes envy the time when only the husband should work and he can still give his a family a good future, but that is not he case now, every one, including students, should work just to have a brighter future. So thanks to mylot, it gives us all the chance to earn additional income by sharing our thoughts and learning new things from other users. :)

Hi visavis, Once again I think there can be no one answer that fits all. We are all unique, despite our culture etc. Often the wife will be best, but sometimes it will be the husband. Personally I prefer a joint venture where there is agreement between both. Blessings.

If my husband would have let me be in charge of the money we would probably still be married. He wouldn't let me control his money and he never gave me any at all. He paid the rent and the bills and I paid for the food and entertainment. Of course he was paying more than me but he made about 10 times as much money as I did and he should have been paying even more or do what I wanted, open a joint account and we both just pay everything from it. I thought we would both get an allowance per say and if we needed more, no problem, just go to the bank and get more. As it turns out he had his reasons for not letting me control the money. It turns out he was a gambler and spending all the extra money. After 12 years of gambling and me not knowing it, he bandrupted us, literally. That is when I found out we were broke and then some, when we went to file. He had to tell me everything then because we both had to go since we were married. I am no longer married to him, for 2 years now I have been divorced. Cheers and happy mylotting my friend, Chris

it depends on the relationship. In some cases women spend alot and cannot help themselves so in this case the man should keep the money but at other times the man spends alot. It all depends on the people.

I think it is depend on the person because in some families there are wives keeping their husbands salary. But there are also many families who investing their salary in some policies. So I think it is depend on the persons who must keep the salary.

My mom and dad both work but my mom the one who keep and arrange the money. She keep in really well because they have commitment what will they used most of the money. So they are saving most of it for our education and buying a house. I think in the future its should the wife who keep the money and I will made planning for the money.

A family comprises of a wife and a husband. So I think it is the duty of both of them to keep the income of the family and to help one another in this regard.

Yes I agree with you. But nowadays, jobs are not permanent. Wives also have to go to work because if the husband get resigned or dismissed from the office, at that time his wife's salary will use to run the family. If he has a permanent job, she won't have to go. I have a cousin sister. She is earning more than her husband. Her husband have 2 brother. They all get married. But they all are earning very little than my sister's earning. They run their big family with my sister's salary only.

I don't really think so. There are also men who are gifted in allotting budgets. There are some couples who split the budgeting. For example, if one partner is mindful of the bills, he/she should be selected to budget for that area. Whoever does best at budgeting for groceries, haggles prices the best at the flea market should be assigned to do just that. It can be tiring if the budgeting alone is done by only one person. It is good if both partners are aware of all the bills so that there will be no argument when it comes to money.

Whichever has the best business sense should take care of the money. Sometimes the job can be shared.

the husband have his main responsibility to make some income, but i think it would be fine if wife are try to make money too. they both can cooperate to earn while they are still doing the household chore

In general; Wife is the keeper of the income of the family because wife knows more about family expenses...and this is also a good practice

I don't see that it should necessarily be either. The one who is best with money perhaps. May be whoever does most shopping- dependant on the family work pattern.

I think both should share both the income and the expenses. They are a couple, and both are supposed to work and live togeter, don't they? Why one should be in charge of earning and the other in charge of the cost? I see this as a cooperative chance, not a dependance. And in these times, men and women equality had made great advancements from those times that women were "property" of the men. Now each one has the same rights, and the same right to administer the family finances.

At present, i believe the wife is the one keeping the budget of the family while the husband is the supplier only, but there are cases that the wife has the job and the husband stays at home and it follows the husband should handle the budget. Of course, you cannot insist the wife to handle this thing if she is already the bread winner and for sure she wants the husband to take care of this. Because our life nowadays has full of complicts and issues in life, it is not a matter who will keep the income of the family for as long they have a good understanding on this matter. But i believe on the point of the bible, the husband should be the keeper and should provide the needs of his family while the wife should only be the helper to the husband in any means, of course the wife will not be a robot, she will decide things that pertains to her, but over all still the husband is the foremost ruler of the family. Since the world we live in dectates differently, therefore, decide among you who will keep considering both of your status, characters, availability, etc..Would you rather follow the dictates of the world or the dictates of the bible?