I, too, would have been appalled had I heard this when beginning my career. I liked working right up to the moment my son was born. I remember holding him and crying a week before my maternity leave was over.
Fast forward 15 years; I’m a homeschooling mother of six with no plans to ever return to my field. I’m happy and content just keeping house and raising my children. I never would have believed that my heart would be satisfied at home yet here I am.
He is right.
God bless you. Far too many children are being raised by strangers while their mothers buy that lie that their other careers are more important.