The argument sounds like:
“Because society is so screwed up it can’t reliably support mothers with children, you should abandon your babies to make sure that the next generation is screwed up, too.”
Ping.
Fear mongering. Risks giving up economic self-sufficiency? What is that?
Just an anecdote: I walked away from a “career path” to go home and raise my babies when they were 2 & 3 years old. I stayed there until they were in college.
For the last 6 years, I have had a corporate job making GREAT money.
I don’t regret one minute that I was at home. I regret that I missed so much of those early, early years.
So advise the women to buy insurance. But since children must be raised by someone, she is really saying that women should only care for children if they are paid for it. Pity her children. Love is a far better motive than money.
Freidan's rambling was consistent with the drumming of the Liberal mantra into childrens' heads in the NEA-controlled indoctrination centers, called public schools.
The destruction of the nuclear family, and subsequent prolifieration of latch-key kids and lack of family-instilled values have evolved to where the "it takes a village" mentality has pushed the country to the brink of lawlessness and victim-hood as the excuse....
Lol, feminists are so frustrated that they can’t MAKE women hate raising their children.
Most mothers think that there is more to life than chasing a buck. Obviously, the author isn't one of those. Counting your money as you grow older is not much to look forward to.
Hey Betty: I thought your ilk was all for CHOICE?
Can’t a woman decide where she wants to place her own body - like at home?
You big hypocrite.
On the other hand, she can walk away from her husband at anytime, claim some B.S. like abuse and get everything he owns.
I hate feminists more than going to the dentist.
Not one person in the entire history of the human race has found themselves on their deathbed, poring over the totality of their victories, defeats, prides and regrets in this life, struggling to get out the last summation of their life’s meaning, said anything even remotely like, “I wish I’d spent more time at work.”
...our race has thought it worth while to cast this burden [of raising children] on women in order to keep common-sense in the world. But when people begin to talk about this domestic duty as not merely difficult but trivial and dreary, I simply give up the question. For I cannot with the utmost energy of imagination conceive what they mean. When domesticity, for instance, is called drudgery, all the difficulty arises from a double meaning in the word. If drudgery only means dreadfully hard work, I admit the woman drudges in the home, as a man might drudge at the Cathedral of Amiens or drudge behind a gun at Trafalgar. But if it means that the hard work is more heavy because it is trifling, colorless and of small import to the soul, then as I say, I give it up; I do not know what the words mean.
To be Queen Elizabeth within a definite area, deciding sales, banquets, labors and holidays; to be Whiteley within a certain area, providing toys, boots, sheets cakes. and books, to be Aristotle within a certain area, teaching morals, manners, theology, and hygiene; I can understand how this might exhaust the mind, but I cannot imagine how it could narrow it. How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone? No; a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute I will pity Mrs. Jones for the hugeness of her task; I will never pity her for its smallness.
-- G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
Let me guess, this discongnitive over-educated fool gets to write most of her articles from HOME! Along with hubby, I bet. Too many people are paid too well for producing nothing of value.
She’s just jealous.
To the author: They DO work, moron. You try being on duty 24/7...
“She’s disappointed by how difficult it is to write anything these days about women’s lives. “Women are so defensive about their choices that many seem to have closed their minds entirely,” she says”
Sounds like she is defensive and suffers from if you don’t agree with me, you have a closed mine.
People are allowed choices in their life. Everyone is so quck to tell another person that they made the wrong choice and should feel ashamed, but don’t critize the choice I made.
I have listened to this garbage since I was in my early 20's.
Get a career! No, stay home with your kids! Your kids will be ashamed if you don't get a career! Your kids won't bond with you if you are working! What does your husband think about someone who doesn't bring home any money? What does your husband think about someone who isn't there with home-cooked meals?
ENOUGH.
There are a fair number of social commentary authors who play to one side of the debate or the other, always stirring the pot to get women to arguing about their life choices and making quite a few feel guilty.
Work/family arrangements are personal and individual decisions. I think it should be left at that.
the origins all of which are a hatred for GOD and God’s place for wimmens....nothing more
No angst nor guilt here. I stayed home to be a wife and mother and have no regrets.