Posted on 08/20/2012 4:24:15 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Prior to World War II and immediately thereafter, most married women in this country worked in their homes raising their children and keeping house. Then during the late 1960s, radical feminists encouraged young women to set aside their traditional family roles as homemakers, helpmates, child nurturers and husband civilizers for something trumpted as much more rewarding.
Women were told that being a stay-at-home mom was nothing more than enslavement perpetrated by their male chauvinist husbands. Forget family life and children. Women could be happy and achieve fulfillment by capably competing with men in the workplace for equal jobs with equal pay.
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What would happen today if most married women remained in the home fulfilling their traditional family roles? Think about how salaries and wages for men would move upward if a shortage of labor prevailed in this country.
(Excerpt) Read more at observer-reporter.com ...
No wonder our culture is so screwed up.
Gotta love open mindedness! Must be a liberal. “
No. I’m just not one of those people that lives to tell other Americans how they ought to structure their lives.
Aren’t you the clueless one.
“Hey, it works for us. Just because you don’t have the smarts to make it work for you doesn’t mean the idea is insane.”
Yeah, that’s what I was saying. /s
The idiot in the OpEd wants to solve unemployment by harboring a fantasy that if all the women just go home, everything will sort itself out.
That is stupidity. If you agree with that stupidity just because it plays to your personal belief that your wife should not work then that is really sad
This is sad, but true. A man divorcing his non-working wife is totally screwed. (or not as the case may be)
That's why I'm still married to my first and only wife after 25+ years of marriage.
That's why we have successfully raised two boys.
That why we've done all that on only one income.
However, the family is almost always better off with a one-income, nuclear-style, way of living.
A woman would be very stupid to trust her Christian husband this day and age and stay home and raise their kids only to get dumped for the whore he works with as soon as the last kid is grown.
She having spent the last 20 years working on a career and and the stupid trusting stay ay home mom at 48 unprepared for a career...yep sounds like a plan to me.
EXACTLY!
My heart goes out to those families that want to have mom at home but don’t see a way to swing it financially. My advice would be... don’t underestimate the provision of God. His economy is not our economy. I have been home since I was first married(19 yrs) and almost every day I see how God can stretch a dollar.
Not only stretch the dollar, but provide when we need it the most.
The scenario of the second job not being worth it it after taxes, work related expenses, etc. assumes that that job doesn’t pay well.
There ARE better paying jobs available to those with technical or professional degrees.
Well if the husband is so dishonorable to dump his stay at home wife for another woman then at least the kids have the benefit of a faithful mother who chose to stay at home with them and may not be so damaged by their father’s actions. I would also challenge people to study the Proverbs 31 woman. She is not a woman who just sits at home watching soaps.
There are a lot of couples where each makes the same income as the other.
In order to avoid the “marriage penalty” taxes, they got married in church only, and didn’t record it at the county.
All the feds see are two single people.
After my divorce, if I didn’t have a job, to stay at home I would have had to be on welfare.
Women going to work has been a SCAM and a COMPLETE SCREWING!
Unfortunately, you need more data to make the point, but it does exist. If you will graph the rise of women leaving the home and entering the workforce, primarily in the 60’s and 70’s, and then graph the double digit inflation that occurred in the 70’s and 80’s, you'll quickly see the true nature of the scam.
Yes people had twice as much income, and were soon paying twice as much in price. In other words, the extremely valuable benefit of a full time mothers was given up - for nothing.
As someone who grew up in the 50’s and 60’s with the valuable benefit of a full time mother, I am constantly amazed at how much stress there is on people that work for us, even though they are two incomes. My Dad's salary was 1/8 of the combined salaries of people that work for us, yet they are constantly in a money crunch.
Sorry, but thanks to inflation, we've given up the fundamental glue that kept kids in line and held families together - for nothing!
Yep. You are correct. That is why you are clueless.
So... women whose husbands have dumped them for trophy wives should... what?
My niece recently had twins, & graduated college with a teaching certificate. She wants to teach.
Why have twins only to let a stranger in day care raise them? That is insane, IMO. Why would you miss the most formative & beautiful time of your child's life to run roughshod over other people's children? If that is her idea of parenting, SHE IS WRONG!
MY point is that it is fine if both spouses work, but when they have kids, one of them needs to raise them, not a day care center. Doesn't matter which parent stays home, man or woman. I'm inclined to believe that women do a better job of civilizing young kids, but that's just my opinion, & certainly is dependent on individual families.
IMO, the main reasons women flooded the workforce in the last 50 years are high taxes & inflation. Taxes on all levels have kept up with & surpassed inflation, while wages have not. For a family to prosper, the wife had to work.
This has had a devastating effect on the children. Parents no longer have time to civilize their children, leaving this task to strangers, with predictable results. Note to new parents: NOBODY but you loves your children! Parents are too busy or tired after work to help with school work or just interact with their children. Parents become detached from the child's world rather than being a necessary integral part.
Now, before some of you jump on me to say how there are many 2 income households with successful children - Certainly there are, but this is the exception. Most folks cannot juggle 2 jobs, kids, & home responsibilities effectively. The kids usually suffer, as does society that must deal with these maladjusted young people.
As for the sexist notion of the title: Bull Pucky!
This is a bunch of hog wash. WWII got the housewives out of the home and into the factories. It was patriotic to do so, as all the able bodied men went off to war.
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