Re SAHMs and WOHMs: Debating who "works hardest" is rather beside the point. There's more to life than frenetic activity, and she who runs herself into the ground first does not win. In fact, it's not a contest at all.
That last line, "it's not a contest," is one of husband's favorites. Along those lines, here are four tweets from said husband (@campion1581). He doesn't say much, but when he does it's gold:
The value of a mother raising her children is not fundamentally economic, any more than the mother/child relationship is economic.I married way up. :)
And the worth of the SAHM does not depend on how hard she has 2 work. To argue this way concedes to the materialistic terms of the feminist.
It could be the easiest thing in the world and it would still be infinitely more valuable than, say, being an RIAA lobbyist.
Motherhood is not a "job." A child is not a product. A home is not a factory.
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As did I. Mine told me that I am the brains and the heart & soul of what makes his life worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteWhat galls me is the lack of respect. I have worked on and off in the past 7 years. At first, because I thought it was the right thing to do. It didn't take me long to realize the juggling wasn't worth it. Then there have been economic factors of health insurance. But I am happier when I am home. It is where I feel the most at peace with myself.
C. S. Lewis
ReplyDeletefrom: Letters to an American Lady
Don’t be too easily convinced that God really wants you to do all sorts of work you needn’t do. Each must do his duty “in that state of life to which God has called him.” Remember that a belief in the virtues of doing for doing’s sake is characteristically feminine, characteristically American, and characteristically modern: so that three veils may divide you from the correct view! There can be intemperance in work just as in drink. What feels like zeal may be only fidgets or even the flattering of one’s self importance...By doing what “one’s station and its duties” does not demand, one can make oneself less fit for the duties it does demand and so commit some injustice. Just you give Mary a little chance as well as Martha.