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To: Finny

No my children struggle and my youngest has a serious bone marrow disease - maybe that is why I worry about this - from the other side — I am in tune and couldn’t be with other serious responsibilites.


251 posted on 02/06/2010 4:19:43 PM PST by FrancesdeChantel
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To: FrancesdeChantel
All children struggle in one way or another. I am very sorry to hear about your son's disease; prayers that God bless him with healing and healthy recovery.

Would it have been any different had you chosen a different stay-at-home-versus-career path? I don't know which way you chose, and either way, I'm sure you chose properly and with the best conscience.

Here's the thing: a stay-at-home mom is every bit as equipped and capable of raising very seriously screwed-up kids as a working mom. Always has been, always will be. "Stay at home" moms on the farms, or on the frontier, had more work to do -- sewing, washing, mending, making their own soap, canning, gardening, etc. etc. etc. -- than most women employed full-time today outside the home.

This "stay at home" mom thing is completely a faddish trend of the last 60 years; it is not and has never been a "condition" of motherhood, and blaming such a relatively modern thing borne of the excess of conveniences for the timeless, perennial condition of domineering women creating wimpy men, is highly misguided.

254 posted on 02/06/2010 4:41:16 PM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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