I would love to help this guy out but with the damnation of our country and the high cost of living and food and insurance and gas and college and taxes well I guess I can’t.
I’ll just sit back and see how many morons think this is a totally sane commentary.
The H-1b quota program would make quick work about wages going, get that mister. Lets all get this straight, the powers that reside on K street will make sure there will be no free market for wages in this country. US citizens will be undercut at every junction.
My mom worked, but not until my brother and I were in HS.
I think it’s OK for women to work, but they have to decide if the trade-off is worth it.
If having annual vacations, a better car, a bigger, better house, etc. than you might own with just ONE paycheck, is woth spending LESS quality time with your kids... then that’s YOUR choice.
You can’t then disparage ‘society’ if your kid becomes a monster you don’t recognize.
IMHO
OK, flame me now.
Well, maybe his dream will be realized once muslims come to power in the US.
I would love to stay home but the taxes upon taxes upon taxes make that impossible. My family’s life quality would drastically reduce. I’m not taking about hand-me-downs and homemade bread, I’m talking about almost no clothes and tilling up the rest of the yard to plant wheat. I already garden and can to supplement our food. Our child care expenses are very little since my husband works 24 hour shifts and is off for 48 hours. I’m off every evening, weekend, holiday, and summer. I’d love to be home all the time with my kids, but that means Big Gov would need to take a (much needed whether I stay home or not) pay cut.
What about when men controlled all the money and doled out ‘housekeeping’ money to their wives? If a marriage is an equal partnership, then if the wife stays at home she should have equal access to the joint bank account and no whinging on the part of the husband about how he earns all the money and has the right to the whole say on how it is spent.
I wonder what the Taliban’s official position is on this idea....
until Sharia law is the law of the land(which is what the regime is fighting for)....Don’t expect Women to stay out of the workplace anytime soon.
that paradigm, has gone the way of the buggywhip.
I don’t think making this a gender issue is accurate.
My wife and I believed that raising our children ourselves was a priority and we made our lives evolve to where this was possible.
Many couples have not considered this prior to having a family—and thus they are not in a position to make it financially.
In my opinion, we will get to the point where a one worker family might become the norm as jobs are lost and there is a return of a more multi- generational, nuclear family.
Actually, (in the US) there is a very narrow window in which this was the norm and usually was limited to classes in which the household could afford a single career outside the home. The author is referring to the time usually known as the era of 'working class leisure'. Prior to around the 1920s (1830s to 1920s generally accepted as the peak of this), in non-farm families the women worked, just as today, usually in factories, mills, etc. Daughters would often go with their mothers to the job to learn the job just as sons would go with fathers. With the exception of the earliest years, child raising was separated by gender and each gender would learn the craft of the prior.
The exception usually is seen in either farming households or pioneer households (usually there is a cross-over in this) where the household was also the business and the farming duties were handled among all in the household.
What the author of this letter has is basically the 'convenient' view portrayed in movies that make everything in the past seem ideal and easy.
The problem is, in this day and age with divorce laws the way they are, a man is a slave if his wife stays at home.
A woman would be very stupid to trust her Christian husband this day and age and stay home and raise their kids only to get dumped for the whore he works with as soon as the last kid is grown.
She having spent the last 20 years working on a career and and the stupid trusting stay ay home mom at 48 unprepared for a career...yep sounds like a plan to me.
Women going to work has been a SCAM and a COMPLETE SCREWING!
Unfortunately, you need more data to make the point, but it does exist. If you will graph the rise of women leaving the home and entering the workforce, primarily in the 60’s and 70’s, and then graph the double digit inflation that occurred in the 70’s and 80’s, you'll quickly see the true nature of the scam.
Yes people had twice as much income, and were soon paying twice as much in price. In other words, the extremely valuable benefit of a full time mothers was given up - for nothing.
As someone who grew up in the 50’s and 60’s with the valuable benefit of a full time mother, I am constantly amazed at how much stress there is on people that work for us, even though they are two incomes. My Dad's salary was 1/8 of the combined salaries of people that work for us, yet they are constantly in a money crunch.
Sorry, but thanks to inflation, we've given up the fundamental glue that kept kids in line and held families together - for nothing!
So... women whose husbands have dumped them for trophy wives should... what?
This is a bunch of hog wash. WWII got the housewives out of the home and into the factories. It was patriotic to do so, as all the able bodied men went off to war.
You’re falling behind! You’re falling behind! If you’re 28, you should have a 4000 square foot house, a big SUV, a pickup truck, a boat and a cabin on the lake. Damn the children, you’re falling behind.
I think this is spot on. I’d go even further. I think men should be the head of the household and women should do everything in their power to use the husband’s money as frugally as possible so that the man doesn’t feel like he has to be a slave to his job in order to pay for the wife’s laziness at home or her wish list for unnecessary desires like fancy hair and nails. Before you yell at me, I am a SAHM, not a man.
I also think that sending my husband off to work every day to hang out with a bunch of single or divorced women is awful. I hate it! I trust him completely but with so much smut in the world, it is always going to be a challenge. How many affairs start in the office place? It’s just asking for trouble.
A mother can only make a living on her own without a man if she is neglecting her duties at home. We absolutely need stronger men, not these wimpy effeminate girly men I see so much of today. I’m not talking gay, just men who let or expect women to make all the decisions. Ugh! We all need to start fulfilling our roles as God intended.
Go ahead. Yell at me. I can take it. I think.
Our colleges and grad programs are geared to take minorities and women over white men.
It's done by every school I have seen whether public or private.
And employers are frequently looking for women and minorities to fill slots...protection from tort claim slots...
It's become ridiculous ..especially in government and large businesses and law schools and medical schools
no matter how hard they try they simply cannot force women into natural sciences, engineering and architecture fields
but...aside form the fact this is simply wrong
I myself for over 20 years now have watched women get these degrees and by age 35 they either quit or go part time
and they are allowed to because their employers fear the lawyers
i know several women with medical degrees...doctors...who have a baby and simply decide not to practice or practice a light schedule...which is fine on one hand
but since they often marry well employed men, they can quit easily
lawyers...same thing
teachers...very often...in my kids schools we see pretty under 30 girls and know they will bow out in time...now they may come back in 10-20 years
I sure don't fault women for being moms...I bow at that altar
but I think that if PREFERENCE caused them to beat out a future husband sole provider just so they could go to medical or law etc school and then quit early in their career (it's always career for gals..not job) and thereby it causes several things bad for our culture
1) future husband loses out for political reason and we lose his LIFETIME work input
2) we spent that capital and time to educate someone and get little return...this is also an issue in the military too
hence...my view...women should think about where their priorities lie before degrees...identity preference should end...that would cure a lot
this is a serious problem...I am pals with a number of male docs and a few retired as I stated former female docs and this is a fairly steady refrain
well trained women who are attractive and marry are simply less likely to use their training even half what a man/father/husband would
unforeseen blowback from feminism...wrought by women who never married or had kids anyhow
Years ago, 1994 to be exact, I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The show was about Baby Boomers vs. Baby Busters and if the new generation were slackers. The economy was in the toilet and the show became about that.
A black woman in the audience got up and suggested that women should stay out of the workforce. I will never forget the look on Oprah’s face!!! The audience moaned and the was no discussion.
Thanks for bringing back an interesting memory for me!