Dang Abby,
You sound a bit fembotty dear.
Do you really feel that strongly about all this?
You are right though ...our economy is addicted to large numbers of moms in the workforce. Sudden withdrawal would be painful.
Why do women have careers and men have jobs or work?
Why do women need validating beyond being good wives and moms? I get my validation from being a good dad-husband-provider....truthfully I don't even seek validation...I just do it...like Nike.
Oh well...name your dinosaur..me.
Ohioan,
more culture stuff, have you seen this?
well, i'm no feminist--i believe in stay-at-home-moms--but, my father died when i was a pre-teen, and i vowed that i would not be put in the position that my mom--a great wife and mother--found herself in, which was little education and a low-paying job. i don't need the validation...i need the security. [i also need a keyboard for my ipaq so i can use caps and punctuations correctly]
It is not really subject to argument. That is, the feminists and those who disparage motherhood, either directly or by implication that some of the transient activities of the moment are equally important, have no creditable argument to make. Obviously, anyone who can see beyond next week, or a month or two longer, knows that motherhood is the role for which woman was designed; the role for which she is most qualified. Anyone who can see beyond the year after next, knows also, that motherhood is the one absolutely essential role that woman can play in her family and in her community.
You can find a substitute for any of those career pursuits. The family and society go on. You can let women vote or not vote; drive or not drive; be lawyers and doctors, or stay in their kitchens and bedrooms; and the consequences effect only those immediately involved. A mere century hence, only the students of history will even remember whether women three + generations earlier voted or not, drove or not, were allowed in the professions or not. But there is no next century for any family, community, race or nation, without motherhood.
That is my perspective on the subject. I realize that people who have made sad choices will need to rationalize their importance. But rationalizations are not reality; nor are they a substitute for real analysis.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site