It’s funny. I have a college education, but I chose to stay home and raise my three children, more or less. I worked here and there, but considered it my main and HOLY duty to raise and educate these kids.
My oldest daughter now works in a fantastic job on Wall Street and is paying off her own student loans.
The other two are doing great as well. A lot of the “working” moms I knew have kids who are either on drugs w/ various tatoos, or are pregnant, or are basically not doing a whole heck of a lot after all these years, most living at home still.
I feel that although I never achieved the position of CEO, or staff VP, I actually CONTRIBUTED something to this society, through 21 years of every difficult work — a healthy, safe, appropriately socialized, mentally fit and TAXPAYING citizen who requires nothing from me other than a visit now and then to help her move into her latest apartment.
I suppose after you have a “real” career, you might also contribute something to society — in that also paid taxes. But what else did you “contribute” to society through your work?
Is it really a contest?
No matter how big a stash of cash you are able to amass in your chosen career, it cannot compare to the gratification one gets from raising kind, moral, upstanding and contributing members of society.
Don’t let them divide us in this way, by questioning/belittling each other’s choices. THEY are drawing the divide; conservative women, working, stay-at-home, part-time etc. should be united in opposition to them.
That is the problem. It is a contest based on their jealousy of successful, intelligent, attractive Conservative women. Liberals feel that unless a woman is in line with their Liberal goals, she is not considered "worthy" and must be less than knowledgeable about anything. It is not just whether they had a college education or not, sometimes...as Liberals did with Sarah Palin...it even depends on where the degree was earned.
Remember how the Libs criticized Sarah's educational background - because it was not Ivy League? And then they also faulted her saying that she (a woman with five children) should be at home because she couldn't possibly be an effective leader and Mom at the same time? Even though Palin is a successful leader and politician, is a good and loving parent, has a happy marriage, is both savvy and very attractive they cannot bear to admire her because she does not tow the Liberal line. She has all the traits they would love for a woman to have and would be admiring and promoting, if she were a Left-winger.
My daughter and one of my daughters-in-law are both college educated and are stay at home Moms. My other daughter-n-law is a Harvard educated lawyer who continues to work and has two boys. Believe me, she is in a constant state of conflict despite having a wonderful work schedule. You just can’t depend on one of the boys not getting some sort of malady that will keep him out of school. She’s fortunate that she can always depend on me and my daughter but even that makes her anxious. She doesn’t have to work but is afraid that if she takes too much time from the workforce she’ll find it difficult to reenter.