One reason it is difficult for women to discuss child care is many of them would rather hold jobs outside of the home, than stay home to care for their children, and they feel guilty about this. They should no more feel guilty about actualizing themselves than men should. This is particularly a problem in the US which is behind other developed nations in making child care policy which supports the parents, and when the subject does up, women in the US get defensive, instead of uniting and getting the policies that are needed for sake of the good families and healthy children, their defensiveness works to prevent such policy from being made, and pits women against women.
Well I don’t think its that easy personally, there are many women I’ve talked to that wouldn’t mind the traditional roles that many modern women spit upon.
I think people forgetting that wanting to raise kids and being a mom is natural for many women, and modern life creates too many distractions in desires in us and we all end up being spread too thin “jack of all trades, master of none”.
I’ve seen it in my own life and upbringing where two people basically live at work, and have no time for much of anything else.
The modern woman was sold on propaganda instituted by government to lower wages, raise taxes, and let children be indoctrinated by the state education system. Where the state becomes a large part of raising the child to tell it what to believe and how to behave.
Women who want a career over raising children should just forgo raising children IMHO, I think people today are doing a tremendous disservice in breaking down their own relationships chasing all these things that end up diluting the most important elements in ones life.
The so called “modern” westerner has really just returned to a state of nature, he is actually going backwards, not forward in many regards. Being wise is knowing that there are tradeoffs in ones life that one has to make.
Why aren’t you in the Defending Marriage thread?
And how about this, if men would rather hold jobs than stay at home with children, should they too not have children? Is there a reason only women should have to make that choice?
I totally agree with the reason we gave up traditional values and have forced women in the work force. When the communist took control of the USSR, the first thing they did was “liberate” women, with a propaganda campaign that the full time homemaker is a non productive member of society. Women fled into the work force, raising the economy, and then divorce and abortion rates climbed and increasing women and children fell into poverty. In the US saying "just a housewife had the same effect of destroying the traditional values, sending women into the work force, increasing abortion and divorce rates, and also increasing the rate of the number of women and children, involved in crime and violence, both as perpetrators and victims. We called the next generation the lost generation, and then we announced a national youth crisis. Family income was improved only temporarily, because the cost of living gladly began demanding two pay checks, increasing our degree of poverty. Child care in the US is non existant for many, and we force single mothers to work when the child is only 3 months of age, and I don’t think a civilization can sink much lower without self destructing.
It is necessary to help parents to raise their children
Oh God. Please explain how a career is “actualizing themselves.” Which is just what you are saying in your second post. So where is this going? You know child care is a bad solution; and I know my luditism is wrong… So what is a progressive answer?
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