This is ridiculous.
To the starter of this thread: If you are comfortable giving $700 a week to your wife and its working out, then why do you care what other people do?!
To those that are putting his wife down: Its none of your business what his wife uses the money for! His question was ‘how much do you give your wife per week for the family bugdet?’ Not ‘is it ok for my not working wife to have cleaning help’! And if he can afford to give $700 a week without her going to work, good for him! He didnt ask you what you thought about his wife not working! He knows his wife is irresponsible financialy, therefore needing a budget, and that his wife needs the cleaning help (whether its justified or not that she needs/wants cleaning help is not for us to decide), which is included in the budget!
By the way, I work 1 and 1/2 jobs, have no cleaning help and have a few young children. I may not agree with how much and what the wife uses the money for, but that wasnt his question and its none of my business.