Women Face an Unfair Choice: Career or Children

SPIEGEL Magazine ^ | Cinco de Mayo, 2006

[RexBeach]

God, what's the alternative? Become a lumberjack?

This is like saying men face an unfair choice: Either they remain single or get married.

Oy!

[mewzilla]

What does fairness have to do with it?

[FormerLib]

I think there's enough of a body of evidence now to show that socities where women put career ahead of children experience a decline in population.

Further, these socities are quickly displaced by those societies which place children and family first.

[MinorityRepublican]

If you'd like to be on this Death of the West ping list, please FR mail me.

[FOG724]

Women Face an Unfair Choice: Career or Children

At least women have a choice. How many men are allowed to stay home with their kids and have someone else earn the money?

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“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.” – Captain Jack Sparrow

[lovecraft]

Just like men face an unfair choice: Work or starve.

[mewzilla]

And the biggest reason why German women may not be having more kids: the German male's attitude on adultery, which is mentioned at this link:

While Mr. President proclaims the end of the traditional family, the Axel Springer Verlag Is running a column in the "Bild Zeitung" (Germany's most read newspaper) about adultery, saying this is a kick for every "boring" marriage and that it is normal to betray partners

Yeah, I'd really want to have kids with some jerk who thinks like this.

[Paradox]

Great point. Unfortunately, not all cultures that put motherhood ahead of career are good ones. Eurabia is coming their way.

The worst thing feminism ever did was to make motherhood look bad. I can understand the feminist desire to have women not be looked down on, I can understand the desire to allow women the opportunity to expand their horizons, but why, oh why, did they have to go and sully the traditional roles, hmmm?

I think this speaks volumes about the Liberal mindset. Its not about choice, its not about opportunity, alot of it simply has to do with destroying the status quo.

[Logophile]

Women Face an Unfair Choice: Career or Children

Yes, life is full of choices. There is simply not enough time to do everything one might wish to do. But is that "unfair"?

Consider the alternative: a life in which no options were available. Would that be any more "fair" than having choices?

[last american]

And what are men's choices...

1) Go to work.

[Old Professer]

With all the recent reports and apparent concern over plagiary, I can't imagine how this same old garbage can be rehashed without at least a good part of it being served up as stale leftovers; better off to miss a deadline than to dirty a clean plate.

[HamiltonJay]

In Germany, the birth of their first child almost inevitably forces young couples back into the lifestyle of their parents, with dad working outside the house and mom in the kitchen. That's the typical division of labor in most German households with children under the age of six.

And this is a problem because???????????????????

Why is it Leftists think that when something serves humanity well for tens of thousands of years, its somehow a bad thing?

[Sensei Ern]

No. Men face an unfair choice: get a job, or be a homeles bum because no woman in her right mind would marry a lazy bum.

[OKIEDOC]

What a completely stoopid article.

Career vs Children.

Suddenly children are chattel.

This is definitely lesbian thinking in the lickness of Rosie O.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Well, when you get into the article, the "unfair" part is really about Germany's excessive taxation of two-inome couples...but the magazine clearly didn't want to say something like that in the headline. ;)

[FormerLib]

Unfortunately, not all cultures that put motherhood ahead of career are good ones.

Absolutely correct. This is particularly true of virtually all Islamic cultures.

[longtermmemmory]

This is another in a long line of BS articles which imply women (or is that wimyn) are supposed to have job pander to their career and maternal whims.

I guess that stay at home husband neutering program did not work out. The feminsts were not able to convince nomal women that motherhood is eeeeevil. (though in california it appears to have succeeded in outlawing the words "mom" and "mother" as a matter of law. really)


The between the lines of this article are that children are not mere accessories. Children require a mother who is going to be THERE to help grow her child.

I also think its significat that this article from germany hides the fact that socialism is predicated on both mother and father working as slaves to the state and no stay at home mothers.

[blu]

The important thing is that WE HAVE THE CHOICE! Some of us are happier in business suits, some are happier in blue jeans.

Oh, drat, here's the dilemma...what about those of us who do it both, work in our homes (business work, not housework...that chit never goes away!) and stay home with the kids? Hmmm....I think that's a choice too, but one that is woefully underreported.

[Robe]

Overheard on a Houston Hobby Airport Approach Frequency..

Female Voice: "Houston Approach, Metro 2146 is with you for three zero left"

Approach: "Metro 2146 , you are cleared for three zero left, report the freeway"

Unknown Male Voice: "Well there goes another empty kitchen"

(asbestos suit ON)