In the next graph (Figure 170) we see a comparison of net Medicare benefits for a single woman versus a married woman (or man) with a stay-at-home spouse.

So he used form 1040X to amend his return to "married, filing separately" to get all the refund, rather than sharing it with his stay-at-home spouse.

But being the stay-at-home spouse was only the fallback plan.

The old idea of stay-at-home spouses filling up free time by volunteering is a dying breed.

My husband is a stay-at-home spouse.

In the subsequent proceedings, Ms. Wendt, a stay-at-home spouse, declared herself an equal partner, entitled to half the family's assets.

It could happen that she wants to be a stay-at-home spouse for a while.

The heads of most major companies have stay-at-home spouses and the money to pay for full-time child care.

It rewards married couples more than single people, and couples with one stay-at-home spouse more than those in which both spouses worked.

It imagines the life of the obsessed Captain's stay-at-home spouse.