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Posted on 05/02/2005 1:10:49 PM PDT by sageb1
So why do thousands of career women nationwide opt to put their careers and salary-earning potential on the back burner to stay home to care for their children?
A Labor of Love
"I had zero experience taking care of children before I had my own," said Laura Mercer, mother of two boys and professional stay-at-home mom outside of Las Vegas, Nev. "Being a career woman most of my adult life, the thought of being a stay-at-home mom didn't even occur to me."
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As an empty nester (but still paying tuition *sigh*), one thing I'm curious about is if there has been any return to 'stay at home' wives? (Where they stay home even when there aren't children, which would be either before/after/or in the abscense of children).
If a wife wanted to stay home just to be a good wife, would that be a bad thing?
Believe it or not, the gov't DOES support stay-at-home moms. There's Title XIX, the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Credit, WIC, food stamps, etc.
We support the children of single parents to the tune of 100,000,000,000 dollars per year via our prison systems.
The libs love having women in the workforce, rather than staying at home.
Much of that stay home is slavery is based on the doctrine that divorce is inevitable, that no marriage is permanent or a partnership.
It is part of the left wing "vision" that marriage will evolve into a temporary "contract" and that children are for breeders and not actually part of marriage.
The leftists (insert democrat or socialist or communists) can not infultrate or take over as long as husband and wife remains a term with meaning, or even the words mother and father. Notice how the MSM avoids the word mother and father in favor of the androgynous "parent".
The people she worked with were ready to kill her. I got a kick 'outta it because the department was all-female... 'whatta hen-house!
I'm all for stay-at-home moms, but the salary analysis needs to be realistic in order to be taken seriously. (The stay-at-home mom is not doing the work of a $600,000/year CEO during a portion of the day.)
I stayed at home to raise my children, I have gotten both praise, and condemnation from other women. I am not retraining for a new career. I have to admit. It isn't easy.
I do have two well adjusted children, and a husband that loves me. I don't forsee a divorce in my future.
Maybe if more mothers did this, the problems with teens would be a little problematic.
My wife has been a stay-at home for two years now and absolutely loves it, I'm sure glad we can afford it - many can't
Ping!
"How about all those feminazi sponsored studies which said daycare was CRUCIAL to the "socialization" of children?"
I wish I could remember the name of the book or author but she said that she was a researcher and they always scewed the results to make it look like daycare was better for a child. She was told that they needed to do this because they didn't want the working women to feel bad. Anybody know the book I'm talking about? She said she apologized to her children because she didn't find out until it was to late how her work impacted them.
"How about all those feminazi sponsored studies which said daycare was CRUCIAL to the "socialization" of children?"
I wish I could remember the name of the book or author but she said that she was a researcher and they always scewed the results to make it look like daycare was better for a child. She was told that they needed to do this because they didn't want the working women to feel bad. Anybody know the book I'm talking about? She said she apologized to her children because she didn't find out until it was to late how her work impacted them.
I think it is part of the long time effort to have stay at home moms get socialist security money despite not paying money into the system.
sorry about the double post.
They were wrong.
And I believe that one of the latest surveys about daycare showed 80% of moms thought children did best in the home, BUT they were worried about the "socialization" issue. If more moms stayed home, there would be enough socialization in the neighborhood. The teachers' unions WANT kids in daycare/preschool. They want control of the kids as early as they can get their hands on them.
I would argue that you are wrong. Raising a well adjusted, productive member of society is actually priceless.
How much does it cost society when at least one parent isn't home with their kids teaching them right from wrong? You cannot put a number on that cost!
Are you an "empty nester" still staying home? I posted a question about that on this thread. Back in my mom's day, many women stayed home simply to be "wives" to their husbands (before/after/without children). Is this what you are doing and does your husband just love it?
This is very true. Maybe it's time that Americans cut the consuming, made better choices about what it is necessary to "have." Keeping up with the Joneses gets pretty expensive. The more "things" we have, the more time we need to spend taking care of them.
Just say "no".
And it's always "working parent."
The fact that a mom puts in a 40-hr. workweek, plus 60 hours of OT means nothing because we aren't earning the bucks.
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