Are Stay at Home Moms “Letting Down the Team?” [Feminists bemoan cultural trend]

AlbertMohler.com ^ | February 24, 2006 | Albert Mohler

[Paperdoll]

The greatest threat to civilization is none other than the Feminist Organization itself! IMHO Mothers who put raising their kids first are the clarion heroines, for they assure the country a healthy and traditional future.

[WV Mountain Mama]

I think we culd add some more:

1. She couldn't pick up guys during last call, no matter how drunk they were.

2. She couldn't get a man if she was holding a fist full of pardons in a men's prison.

That means she is probably a feminist not vecause she wants to be, but because she HAS to be.

[mtbopfuyn]

Hershman can take a flying leap. Doesn't she have a clue as to why today's latch key youth are so messed up? I don't care if it's mom or dad, but IMHO one parent needs to stay home or work part time in order to properly raise the kids. And I mean all the way through high school, too.

[Coldwater Creek]

A great husband is the key. Enjoy these working years, because when the grandchildren come you are going to want to be available.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Is there such a thing as a happy feminist?"

Actually, 'Happy Feminists' are usually disguised as well-adjusted 'Conservative Women.' :)

(You CAN have it all; you just can't have it ALL AT ONCE.)

[gogeo]

This is stunning stuff. In Hirshman's view, a woman's choice to deploy her "capacities for speech and reason" as a mother is not prudent or acceptable. Beyond this, she seems to demonstrate an inherent dislike for children in general, and infants in particular. She accuses stay at home moms of "bearing most of the burden of the work always associated with the lowest caste." She identifies these tasks as "sweeping and cleaning bodily waste," and condemned mothers who were described in a press account as "vigilantly watching their babies for signs of excretion 24-7" as "untouchables" by choice.

I've had a suspicion that the "jobs Americans don't want to do," are keeping house and caring for children.

[WV Mountain Mama]

culd=could, yikes, and I've got a bachelors +28 master's credits!!! Of course, being a stay at home mom negates any education I have acquired...

[Fintan]

Hirshman threw herself into the debate over motherhood last year, when she responded to a spate of media reports that indicated an amazing trend--large numbers of highly educated young women on elite college and university campuses indicated that they did not intend to pursue a career outside the home, but to give themselves to being wives and mothers.

 

Gee, free will's a bitch.

[MD_Willington_1976]

My wife is a SAHM, she also has a Degree in Early Childhood Education, my children get a loving mother and a pre-school teacher all in one package...

[Coldwater Creek]

That is so moving!!!!!!

[gogeo]

I've been on some threads where FReeperettes saw nothing wrong with feminism. I suspect this isn't the "feminism" they had in mind...when they poo-pooed the idea that feminists had declared war on men.

[NathanR]

Wow! What idiocy!! What mind numbing ignorance!!!

If she wins, she will only lose bigger next time, when Sharia Law is imposed on her. Since, she is obviously not a Christian or Jew her only choices will be submit or die.

It will be like the Anglo Saxons, who drove off the Danes in a great battle, only to fall to the Normans a few months later.

[dennisw]

I hope this hard hearted mad woman hasn't any children because she would screw 'em up in major ways

[Search4Truth]

The term "stay at home mom" is in itself an insult. As if women who are wives and mothers did nothing but stay home. The more descriptive and accurate term, the one that American women who were wives and mothers have been known by for centuries, is "Homemaker - a maker of home.

Home is where the heart is, it used to be said. Home is where the lives of Americans used to revolve around. That is where children were nurtured, raised, educated, where the elderly spent their last days, where the sick were made well. It was a refuge for all who needed one. And it is for that home that men have fought and died.

While men can build and defend nations, that can't give them the heart that brings meaning to a man's life, as the Homemaker can. It is my belief that it is the return of the Homemaker that will ultimately save our country.

Lets not concede to the feminists a single word. The least of which should be the word Homemaker.

[JenB]

Sheesh. My mom didn't "waste her potential" by having seven kids, staying home with us, and homeschooling. I won't "waste my potential" either when I have kids, stay home with them, and homeschool them.

Honestly, I can't imagine a more important or fulfilling job than actually raising your kids.

[sgtbono2002]

She is probably just angry because stay at home mothers usually dont date Butch's

[metmom]

Don't know if you saw this yet ping.

[MamaTexan]

I tried.

Are stay at home moms a threat to civilization?

But I didn't make it past the first sentence....LOL!

Raising children are the reason 'civilization' EXISTS!

:-)

[metmom]

Don't forget the old adage: The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.

[HairOfTheDog]

She doesn't buy into the arguments of many homemakers who say taking care of the family is the most fulfilling thing they could imagine." ...."I would like to see a description of their daily lives that substantiates that position," she said.

I'd like to see a description of what is so fulfilling about daily life in cubicle land. Really! I've been there, done that, and it was a means to an end. Work I had to do to get the money I needed so I could really live in my spare time. Life is not the office.