'Mommy Wars': To Work or Stay at Home?
Linda Hirshman Says Stay-At-Home Moms Are Wrong
Feb. 22, 2006 — An alarming number of college-educated women are leaving the work force to stay at home and raise their children, a trend that is a tragedy not only for the mothers, but ultimately their children and women as a whole.
So said law professor and working mom Linda Hirshman in a 2005 article for American Prospect magazine that has ignited an intense debate among mothers.
Census figures show 54 percent of mothers with a graduate or professional degree no longer work full time. In 2003 and 2004 Hirshman interviewed about 30 women whose wedding announcements had appeared in The New York Times in 1996 and who had had children. Five of the women were working full time, and 10 were working part time. The rest were not working at all.(More proof that there is hope, as half of the women stay at home like they are supposed to. -Quietus)
"We care because what they do is bad for them, is certainly bad for society, and is widely imitated, even by people who never get their weddings in the Times," Hirshman wrote. "This last is called the 'regime effect,' and it means that even if women don't quit their jobs for their families, they think they should and feel guilty about not doing it."
Hirshman also said educated women choosing to stay home was bad for them as individuals.
"A good life for humans includes the classical standard of using one's capacities for speech and reason in a prudent way, the liberal requirement of having enough autonomy to direct one's own life, and the utilitarian test of doing more good than harm in the world," Hirshman wrote. "Measured against these time-tested standards, the expensively educated, upper-class moms will be leading lesser lives."
The Other Side
Faith Fuhrman has a master's degree in nursing, but chooses to stay home with her children.
"The job I was in when I had, first had my child, I couldn't have done it," Fuhrman said. "I was working 14 hours a day. I was on call."
When Debbie Klett became a mother, she quit her job in ad sales and started a magazine called Total 180 so she could work from home and spend more time with her children.
"For me, I feel it is vital to be there for my children every day, to consistently tend to their needs, to grow their self-esteem, and to praise them when they're right, guide them when they're not, and to be a loving, caring mom every minute of the day," Klett said.
Klett acknowledged there were consequences to her choice to stay at home. To save money, her family has given up cable, does not go out to dinner, and does not go on vacations.
"We made tremendous financial sacrifices for me to be able to stay home with my children, and I wouldn't trade that for the world," Klett said.
What About the Children?
Hirshman argues that Klett's children would be fine if she worked outside the home. Statistically there is no difference in the happiness levels of the children whose mothers work and the children whose mothers stay at home, she said.
Deborah Skolnick agrees. She is a magazine editor who will not give up her job and feels working is a good example for her children, and helps them in other ways.
"I think my kids are as well-behaved and as well-socialized, if not better, than a lot of a fair number of at-home moms," Skolnick said. "I see at-home moms whose children won't separate from them, won't go to school, cry at the door. My children have learned, from an early age, that Mommy will be back. So they kiss me and they say goodbye."
Fuhrman asked her 13-year-old son what he thought was the benefit of having a stay-at-home mom.
"He said, 'Well, I really like to come home every day and finding you here,'" Fuhrman said.
"But on the other hand, my daughter says to me, 'Mommy, when I grow up, I'm gonna get a job at your magazine, and I'm gonna sit at the same desk as you and we're gonna be on the same magazine together until we die,'" Skolnick said. "And that makes me kind of happy."
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"At every door-way,
ere one enters,
one should spy round,
one should pry round
for uncertain is the witting
that there be no foeman sitting,
within, before one on the floor." -Odin, from the Hávamál (Olive Bray's translation)
"Feb. 22, 2006 — An alarming number of college-educated women are leaving the work force to stay at home and raise their children, a trend that is a tragedy not only for the mothers, but ultimately their children and women as a whole."
How those yids worry about us, they don't eat, don't sleep, they only think how to help to the stupid goys. It brings tears to my eyes.
Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.
Erich Fromm
Hmmm...so giving birth to children, then running back to work immediately, leaving your childs care and upbringing in the hands of an essential stranger...you'll see the kids on the weekends and hollidays...is the right thing? Anything for the almighty dollar, I guess...dont let those damn nuisance kids get in the way of an important career.
If that's right...I'm proud to be wrong.
The hardest lesson
in life to learn
is which bridge to cross
and which bridge to burn.
These White parents really ought to either abort the little monsters or drop them off in the nearest nigger ghetto as soon as they're able to fend for themselves. It's the only way to do things properly.
I suppose kikes like Hirshman think "the goy" should be out there generating taxable income rather than looking out after their own legitimate interests, such as properly raising children. God forbid anything be placed before the holy economy.
"But on the other hand, my daughter says to me, 'Mommy, when I grow up, I'm gonna get a job at your magazine, and I'm gonna sit at the same desk as you and we're gonna be on the same magazine together until we die,'" Skolnick said. "And that makes me kind of happy."
I'm sure the larval yid will "get a job" at mommy's magazine. After all, they're both INSIDER FUCKIN' KIKES!
How those yids worry about us, they don't eat, don't sleep, they only think how to help to the stupid goys. It brings tears to my eyes.
They brush our coats, feed us with antibiotic laced foods, hose us down, and then lead use to that windowless building with the chains dangling from the ceiling and the drain in the middle of the floor.
The Warlord
Isn't this whole "women's rights" thing supposed to be about allowing women choices? If so why is the choice of some of these women to stay at home and raise their kids not acceptable? This shows how phoney they are, as usual. She looks like a kike-dyke, there seems to be a pattern with that.
FKA, Hitler Goddess, Starr
That is one angry looking jewish bull dyke. Intelligent white women having white children is like a dagger to the heart of the Jewish plan.
look at the tension in her neck.
look at the simmering evil half-smile.
she wants to KILL YOU.
Isn't this whole "women's rights" thing supposed to be about allowing women choices? If so why is the choice of some of these women to stay at home and raise their kids not acceptable?
Yep. I thought all of these various movements were about freedom, but the reality is there is only freedom enough to follow their prescribed party line. They celebrate diversity with the intention of everyone eventually becoming some shade of brown and encourage women to be free only along the confines of their prechosen model.
Anyhow, I plan to homeschool my kids and stay home with them. I'm not going to let some daycare liberals raise my kids their way or subject my kids to sitting in some glorified babysitting they call school so they can learn to be a drone for eight hours and develop a seething hatered for the world in general like I did, lol.
Hell really is other people.
PLAYBOY: But what about the women who stay home and are still suffering?
PAGLIA: The problem is the alternative handed to them by feminism. I look at my friends who are on the fast track. They are desperate, frenzied and frazzled, the most unhappy women who have ever existed. They work nights and weekends and have no lives. Some of them have children who are raised by nannies.
PLAYBOY: What's your point? Do you want women to go back to the home?
PAGLIA: The entire feminist culture says that the most important woman is the woman with an attached case. I want to empower the woman who wants to say, "I'm tired of this and I want to go home." The far right is correct when it says the price of women's liberation is being paid by the children.
PLAYBOY: Are you siding with the far right?
PAGLIA: No. What I'm doing is pointing out the bind the women's movement has created not only for women but for the culture as well. Children are abandoned. There is no doubt that it's better for kids to have contact with mothers for those early years. When I go to work in the morning, I see black women and Hispanic women pushing strollers filled with rich, white babies. These women provide the best human contact that those kids have. So we have gone back to the mammy. It's Gone With the Wind again.
A translation of the Jewspeak:
"We care because what they do is bad for them, is certainly bad for society(They wont be out making money for the Jewish system), and is widely imitated(We cannot have too many Women refusing to work For Jewish Corporations, We'll lose too much $$$), even by people who never get their weddings in the Times," Hirshman wrote. "This last is called the 'regime effect,' and it means that even if women don't quit their jobs for their families, they think they should and feel guilty about not doing it(Women who choose Family over career should feel ashamed and guilty)."
Just another Kikess preaching the destruction of the White family
structure, And who the Hell cares about her "We care because what they
do is bad for them" opinion. On the contrary It Is bad for the Jew, As
White Women who choose to stay at home can raise Children better
than some Mud daycare worker.