My wife has bought into this women need to work thing. I make more than enough to support the family but she feels the need to work to show her worth. It causes big fights when I bring up that the ones that suffer are the kids and my house looks like crap. Her being a practicing psychologist who specializes in major mental disorders but has had training in family counseling I find it paradoxical that she cannot see some of the issues that arise from non-nuclear families. What do I know I am only a layman ( with a technical Master’s degree ) I am told.
So I get to plug along and make sure I take off work when the kids have a function to get to so she can work to be able to buy more junk.
This is going to raise the hackles on all the feminazis.
And homemaking skills are not really being passed on from mother to daughter the way they used to be - in much the same way that construction and repair skills are not being passed along from father to son.
Thank God I’m not a pastor’s wife. Even the term “pastor’s wife” is degrading, like she has no identity apart from him.
I could see having a course, but an entire major? Sounds like a Christian Women’s Studies major to me- with the same amount of usefulness to employers after college.
Come away, my lover, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the spice-laden mountains.
My niece is a medical doctor and her husband is a Baptist minister. I often wonder how that works.
People don’t go to religious schools to become civil engineers or CPAs. Women who choose this type of school do expect to follow a fairly intense commitment to their religion that may include marrying a pastor, raising children within a Christian family, teaching classes, and lifelong community service. This concentration sounds completely supportive of those goals to me. Not everyone is interested being on the clock.