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"All this will do is subsidize more out of wed babies..."

I think your wrong. The mother would only get a portion of the work credit from the working spouse.

She's going to get an amount of SS equivilant to 1/2 of his earning anyway, assuming they were married for 10 or more years. Her getting the work credit would provide her with disability payments if she became disabled.

See number five above. But if the mother and husband stay married, why the need for the extra accounting?

I really challenged myself before my statement. My wife and I are both professionals and are looking to have kids soon, but late in life.

It is true that a moms work is under valued. Actually in my circles the title mother is only given to those who have had at least three.

The real beef I have with this is yet more government involvement to promote fault free pagan lifestyles....

That doesn't really seem all that outrageous.

Here's one thing about the current system that's bothered me...

I worked. I worked for many years, and paid SS taxes like everybody else. But then DH and I had a baby, and since then I've been out of the tax-paying workforce.

I don't mind being able to choose between my own or my husbands benefits...

But it bugs me that if I become disabled, I have no SS protection. It goes away if you stay out of the workforce, and I'd have to work again for two full years before I was eligible again.

Maybe the system can't afford it, but the inelibility for SS benefits bothers me. I work every day of my life. My family counts on my work. (Childrearing,homeschooling, home maintenance, etc). That's accounted for in my eligibility to collect benefits based on my contributions or my husbands.

But If I lost the ability to make contributions to my household, there is no protection for me or my family at all. (which is why we have private insurance).

They should at least change the law so that healthy mothers who re-enter the workforce do not have to wait two years to be eligible for disability benefits.