Are Stay at Home Moms “Letting Down the Team?” [Feminists bemoan cultural trend]

AlbertMohler.com ^ | February 24, 2006 | Albert Mohler

[Das Outsider]

LOL...when we had our first the pediatrician used the term "stool gazers" for parents who are overly concerned with poops and such.

I often refer to reading the major newspapers as such.

[Nowhere Man]

Well, let's put it this way, the original tenants of feminism is to create a more vast array of choices for women. Many women do choose to stay at home with their kids, this is a choice as well but why can't feminists respect that? It is a choice after all. Oh yeah, it doesn't fit the agenda so it is either a bad choice or a sellout.

[HitmanLV]

I'd like to see a description of what is so fulfilling about daily life in cubicle land. Really! I've been there, done that, and it was a means to an end. Work I had to do to get the money I needed so I could really live in my spare time. Life is not the office.

Well said. Whenever anybody tells me they have a rewarding career, I ask them what's so rewarding about it. Blank stare - nobody ever bothered to call them on it! Whenever anybody tells me how much they love their job, I ask what's so fulfilling about it. Blank stare again. Few people have seemed to have really thought this through.

[wagglebee]

The only "choice" the left recognizes is infanticide.

[Das Outsider]

The only "choice" the left recognizes is infanticide.

Of course, it isn't infanticide if you change the definition and establish the practice as a legally protected right. That's nihilism for you.

Feminism began as a means of reaching an end: that women have the same legal rights and representation as men. Over time, the radical lesbian separatist template was brought closer to the fore. Since that agenda is so concerned with children and motherhood, as lesbians can neither have the first nor enjoy the second without mechanical intervention, why would they stand against abortion or infanticide?

The feminist movement isn't about the rights of women, and it hasn't been for a long time.

[kdr3]

Hirshman pic & GMA article

[Notwithstanding]

Fact 1: Most women long to marry and become a mom.
Fact 2: Most moms long to raise their own kids - not to hire out such nurturing.

Feminism pretends these two facts don't exist.
Feminism pretends that women and men are not at all different.
Feminism is built on false premises.

Feminism has failed to make every workplace and profession a 50-50 split of men and women at all levels.
Women have chosen other options. That pisses off the women who don't want to marry and dedicate themselves to raising their kids.

This experiment has made it much harder for the men who do in fact have to support their families to obtain jobs that will support a family (without a mother also working for pay).

Feminism has done one thing that is good: it has opened up careers for women who wish to have them. But it has done so at the expense of families - and the majoirty of men and women who wish to have them.

[Unam Sanctam]

So feminists are anti-choice, at least when it comes to choosing to be a mother full time?

[Marie]

As for cleaning up "excrement"...

Last month my son had the flu. He woke me up at 4AM, then promptly threw up on a bowl as soon as I got out of med. I got him a glass of ice water and a cold rag, removed the offending bowl and wiped his hair off his sweaty forehead.

When he looked at me with those large, exhausted, overwhelmed eyes my body filled love and compassion. I'd only had 2 hours of sleep, but it never crossed my mind to leave his side for the rest of the day.

I wouldn't give the gift of cleaning up my children's excrement to anyone else in the world.

[Diva]

So by this *ithes' reasoning we have the right to abort those babies but not the right to be their mothers!!! I wish I could slap her silly.

[Marie]

*ping*

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

This is not a "cultural trend" it is the way Western Civilization grew and flourished for several thousand years. The feminazi revolt is one of the main destroyers of our Judeo-Christian culture.

When I called it a "cultural trend", I didn't mean a cultural fad, as in something short-lived. I meant that our culture is moving in this direction (as you mentioned, back to the way it had been prior to the feminazi revolt).

[Terriergal]

yeah right! I can't believe they're trying to resurrect that dead horse!

[shaggy eel]

,,, they just keep chipping away until they get what they want.

[TheresaKett]

My wife and I raised three daughters. I am a widower now for two years. When she knew she was dying my wife thanked me for many things but the thing she was most grateful for was that I made it possible for her to stay at home when our kids were small and she could be with them every day. My daughters too have thanked me for that as they had her every day. That's a very important thing now that she is gone. It's not a day care center they remember, it's their mom, home every day and taking care of them. Always ask yourself what your money is buying you and what you are selling to get it. Somethings are irreplaceable and those things are not at the office.

I could not agree more. I also unfortunately am widowed, have been since my son was 17 days old and he is now 4. It is a great priveledge to still be able to be a stay at home Mom to our little boy. I have my BA and worked as a Paralegal for over 10 years, but now I work at home doing bookkeeping to be able to be with my boy. I appreciate the fact that my own Mother stayed home with me and my two sisters and brother. Nothing could take the place of a parent home with their child, and child care is not the answer so women can "get in the real world".

[Reddy]

If taking care of children is a mindless, boring, lower caste waste of time, then who would this woman recommend take care of children? Is she saying teachers and child care workers are mindless, boring, lower caste and wasting their time?

She probably recommends that all children be aborted. Problem solved.

[familyop]

",,, you'll get a kick out of this one when you read the article."

I did, and thank you. More families should escape from the government social programs for enticing and coercing mothers to stay in the labor pool. Families that stay together are more likely to build inheritances for their children. They are also more likely to compete in business. Unfortunately, too many of our business leaders of today have turned to the left and do support anti-family social programs in favor of a larger labor pool. Their ancestors (our bosses of yesteryear) sincerely said, "Competition is healthy," but their brats have left such philosophy behind. They live only for what they can get today.

I remember a rumor that during the late 1970s, a US defense contractor did research on (non)marital status and effects on troops. During that ridiculous study, it was concluded that military personnel could do far better, if our country were a country of singles (experiment also tried in Ancient Rome). The conclusion was no surprise, given the social climate during that study. In truth, our western culture social experiment has crushed our ability to recruit an adequate army for a world war. A draft would not be sufficient to remedy the problem. Real, cohesive, traditional family ties are needed for morale.

[familyop]

BTW, there's at least one hen like Hirshman working to divide other wives from husbands in every neighborhood. But Hirshman gets more broad coverage.

[Needed one terrible pun in this thread, eh? Jokes about broadcasting in certain cases are also welcome.]

[shaggy eel]

,,, you're smack on the money with those comments.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

During that ridiculous study, it was concluded that military personnel could do far better, if our country were a country of singles (experiment also tried in Ancient Rome).

Ancient Rome's experiment is now commemorated as Valentine's Day (according to the story, Valentinus performed marriages in defiance of the emperor's nobody-of-military-age-can-get-married edict).