Oh, absolutely. My point was that because of Nixon taking the currency off the gold standard and the resultant inflation, a lot of women had to go to work to support their families and help their husbands. And the market sucked right in and took adavantage of it. I know that Bush Jr. (no matter what anyone says about him) promised to try to return the economy to where moms can stay at home if they wanted to. But by then it was beyond the point of no return. The market just ran away with it, and no one president after Nixon can be held singly accoutable for the economy. (and I don't want to get into politics, either, I see good and bad on both sides.)
Well said, you should never have to justify staying at home with your child. Never. Being a stay at home mom isn't slavery when you have the freedom to choose to be a housewife. Hell, I see having work a job a form of slavery. I resent it because I don't have a chance to do what I really want to do, which would be based at home, and I didn't have the chance to spend as much time with my daughter.
I hate it when people slam home schooling. Like making your kid go to public school will "toughen" them up somehow. Is that what is important, making your kid socially adjustable to jerks, or that your child really learns important academics that will get a good college education? Since when is "socialization" more important in school than academics?
A lot of women feel the same way. And a lot of men. They want to stay home more often to be with their families. Now we have to work so many hours and often a 40 hr week isn't enough. And these damn companies have a monopoly on our time. Pay isn't enough, so we have to work more hours. Both parents.
I watched something develop that I found very satisfying: Talk shows like Oprah and Montel in the '90s had audiences and guests who condemned women who wanted to stay at home as housewife/stay at home mom. Any guest who expressed a desire to stay at home was booed. This made me so damned angry. But a few years later talk shows now cater to housewives and stay at home moms. Ha ha! They must have gotten a lot of nasty grams from furious stay at home moms. The producers learned that stay at home moms were the main audience.
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Re: The second 'stay-at-home-mom' point
Date: 2010-10-03 05:24 pm (UTC)Oh, absolutely. My point was that because of Nixon taking the currency off the gold standard and the resultant inflation, a lot of women had to go to work to support their families and help their husbands. And the market sucked right in and took adavantage of it. I know that Bush Jr. (no matter what anyone says about him) promised to try to return the economy to where moms can stay at home if they wanted to. But by then it was beyond the point of no return. The market just ran away with it, and no one president after Nixon can be held singly accoutable for the economy. (and I don't want to get into politics, either, I see good and bad on both sides.)
Well said, you should never have to justify staying at home with your child. Never. Being a stay at home mom isn't slavery when you have the freedom to choose to be a housewife. Hell, I see having work a job a form of slavery. I resent it because I don't have a chance to do what I really want to do, which would be based at home, and I didn't have the chance to spend as much time with my daughter.
I hate it when people slam home schooling. Like making your kid go to public school will "toughen" them up somehow. Is that what is important, making your kid socially adjustable to jerks, or that your child really learns important academics that will get a good college education? Since when is "socialization" more important in school than academics?
A lot of women feel the same way. And a lot of men. They want to stay home more often to be with their families. Now we have to work so many hours and often a 40 hr week isn't enough. And these damn companies have a monopoly on our time. Pay isn't enough, so we have to work more hours. Both parents.
I watched something develop that I found very satisfying:
Talk shows like Oprah and Montel in the '90s had audiences and guests who condemned women who wanted to stay at home as housewife/stay at home mom. Any guest who expressed a desire to stay at home was booed. This made me so damned angry.
But a few years later talk shows now cater to housewives and stay at home moms. Ha ha! They must have gotten a lot of nasty grams from furious stay at home moms. The producers learned that stay at home moms were the main audience.