[linda_22003]

"partly due to good values and sheer love of their children"

So good mothers automatically mean stay at home. Who's confusing correlation and causality now? :)

[dmz]

Nice catch, Linda.

There seems to be a tremendous amount of one-size-fits-all in the comments on this thread.

Working (outside of the home) moms hate their children, only love themselves.

Stay at home moms love their children and are entirely selfless.

[xsrdx]

So good mothers automatically mean stay at home.

It does on FR.

Moms who choose to work are suspect. My least favorite characteristic of this forum.

[MEGoody]

So good mothers automatically mean stay at home.

She said 'good values'. Is it a 'good value' to put your kids in daycare when being a mom who works outside the home isn't necessary?

[HitmanLV]

One theme I consistently come back to on FR is that women have more choice and freedom when it comes to career, life, etc.

Of course, men have more choice and freedom, also.

Women who want to both be moms and have a career are free to do so, and will most likely find happiness with a mate who supports those goals.

Women who want to stay home with their children and raise them are free to do so, and will most likely find happiness with a mate who supports those goals.

Men and women are free to reject potential mates who don't have a similar world view. That's a good thing. Personally, I don't like women with demanding careers because I don't like the idea of having a companion or mate who is absent for long, and often unpredictable, spells. I'm not flexible on that. That's my prerogative and I exercise it.

As for family life, I want a woman who will forgo a demanding career in favor of raising the children at home. There is no shortage of takers at all on that mandate, and that's a good thing. Women who aren't willing to make that sacrifice won't be happy with me. That's fine.

With more choices comes more flexibility. Everybody gets what they want, and people tend to get what they deserve. A person need not find thousands of people with a similar world view: they just need to find one (at a time, in any case). That's good and fair.

It's incumbent on people to find companions/mates with a similar world view and expectations to make the union work. Rejecting people on any number of grounds is legitimate: it's an inexorable side-effect of freedom & choice.

[DBeers]

So good mothers automatically mean stay at home. Who's confusing correlation and causality now? :)

Better mothers. Conversely, working mothers tend to be better workers than non-working mothers... More mothering tends to equate to better mothering despite all the social engineering leftist "research" stating time spent mothering does not matter...

[Fairview]

So good mothers automatically mean stay at home. Who's confusing correlation and causality now? :)

Show me where I wrote that ONLY stay-at-home moms can be good mothers. I work myself.

[IrishRainy]

I'm a working mother...but I work from home. Where do I fit in?