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This isn't anything new.

My mother insists that she worked harder staying at home doing petty chores than my dad worked for 30 years in a 110 degree factory.

The catch is, my mother didn't really do all that much around the house. From my observations, most housewives don't.

Completely cleaning an average sized house takes all of what, 3 or 4 hours? Also, the house is completely cleaned every single day? Yeah right.

And this notion of "taking care of kids", what exactly does that involve? Sitting them in front of the TV while "princess" chit chats on the phone all afternoon?

On your next day off go visit your local mall, shopping center, mall, Wal- Mart, mall, or any other store (mall) during the day. Take a good look around. You'll be amazed at how many housewifes are doing "back-breaking work" at the mall during the day.

I'm sure the Freeper Feminist Hit Squad will show up on this thread and flame me.

Whatever, not every woman is a lazy man hating control freak who only wants to spend your money and raise brats. You stay home with several little ones who can wreak more havoc in a minute than a tornado. You stay home without adult conversation for days on end and see if you could handle it. Most men who have to do this for a short while figure out how much work is involved in raising children, maintaining a home, cleaning up after everyone only to realize that in a few minutes it won't look like it's been cleaned in a week.

Part of the problem with this country is that we have delegated the rearing of children to others who don't share our values and we are reaping the seeds sown. The future of the country is the children and they will only be moldable for a very few short years. So either parents start raising their children again and making sure they have the right values or we continue the abdication of this most important responsibility to those whose values are diametrically opposed to ours and pay the price in future generations.

I worked in many different paid employment positions prior to raising children. No, as a woman I am probably not physically capable of performing as adequate a job as a man in a 110-degree factory. (I suppose it depends on the job. Standing there inspecting a product would work, but palletizing wouldn't).

But I sense the disdain dripping from your post about lazy, good-for-nothing women who stay home with the kids. I would personally prefer the factory work. Then I could say, 'Look at me, I work myself to death in a 110-degree factory while my lazy, good-for-nothing husband chit-chats on the phone'. And I could come home at night and complain that the house isn't clean enough, my dinner isn't right, and the kids are in my way.

No, housework isn't necessarily physically laborious. I've offered to go to work and let my husband take care of the children. (Of course he declined!) (He doesn't do physically laborious work, BTW, he does tech support which is what I used to do). What would *you* rather do, honestly? Work in a factory for 8 hours or stay home taking care of children?

I guess it's just all part of Adam and Eve's curse about the relationships between men and women.