Boats move faster without an anchor attached.
Posted on 08/11/2013 2:30:46 PM PDT by pabianice
Sheilah O’Donnel tells herself that her new home, a townhouse in a development in Chevy Chase, Md., just a stone’s throw from a Safeway, isn’t really all that bad. Sure, it’s near a gas station. And the front window, with its cheerily upholstered cushions, overlooks a dreary parking lot. And yes, it’s kind of small — “an apartment,” O’Donnel, who is 44, sometimes says bitterly, when she’s reminded of her former life with her ex-husband in their custom-built, six-bedroom home. But then again, it’s perfectly maintained and impeccably furnished, and most important, it’s rented with her own money, from the first real job she has had in almost a decade. From the Archive Lisa Belkin's 2003 Article on the Opt-Out Revolution »
It’s a midlevel sales job, a big step down from the senior position she held before she had children and quit work. When she was first hired, in May 2011, her salary was just a fifth of what she earned at her peak. But, she said, she wasn’t complaining. All around her, she saw women her age scrambling to find work, some divorcing and losing their homes. She liked to help them, editing their résumés, polishing cover letters, pumping up tearful friends who forgot what they were worth after years without a paycheck.
After one emotional session with a friend, her 12-year-old daughter asked what all the fuss was about. O’Donnel told her: “This is the perfect reason why you need to work. You don’t have to make a million dollars. You don’t have to have a wealthy lifestyle. You just always have to be able to at least earn enough so you can support yourself.”
Nine years ago, O’Donnel was promoting a very different message...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
...an accurate analysis adroitly alliterated.
Life’s a bitch! (and then you die)
Women, en mass, voluntarily giving up motherhood is the death of civilization.
“It also unfairly attacks former husbands who (Damn them!) have become even more financially and socially successful.”
Boats move faster without an anchor attached.
I worry about my son. He is drawn to women like this and wants to have kids. What is he to do?
Life’s a bitch! (and then you die)
What, not taxes??
I smell BS. How many people at Oracle make 500,000 per year? How many people can walk away from that?
A prenupt that says she works after child birth?
Totally not enforceable.
Marry my daughter who wants a pile of kids, has been homeschooled and is now in missions, and who would provide one of the most creative and God-centered family life available.
Generation x, you (we) suck. You're (we're) a bunch of spoiled whiners, who are the worst parents in the history of the world. Your kids (can't say 'our kids' here, 'cause I have none) are going to be the downfall of our Republic.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
God will provide her with a husband.
Go abroad and find a woman from a non-broken culture.
Live in Hopey Changey, die in Despair.
This woman will be held up as a victim of discrimination because she couldn’t get her job back since she left work to raise a family. It like extended maternity leave. Lawsuit to follow.
There is already discrimination against those who’ve been out of work for a year or more, since the 2008 recession started, and she’s been out of work for a decade. She’s lucky to have gotten a job at all.
Boats move faster without an anchor attached.
the link won’t work
About all I could get out of the article was: choices have consequences!
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