Updated 01/06/2007
Some feminists want the “maternal instinct” to be “extinct” evidently. What started out as a demand for “choices for women” has become the demonization of those who don’t make the “right” (read “politically correct”) choices of a few women who feel they have the right to tell everyone else (men and women) what’s right.
Even though studies indicate that children “dumped” on the child care system can be traumatized and de-stabilized from not being home with a mom, and even though stay at home mom’s report immense satisfaction and recognize their work as a true “calling”, it’s “bad” for them say the mannish looking women who don’t look likely to pick up a hot date let alone snag a man who’d want to father their children.
I’m sure these women would call the smart home schooling mom’s I know with 4 to 6 homeschooled kids “breeders” or some other derogatory term that belies their alleged support for “choices for women.”
When someone contacted me and complained about this post – anonymously of course because they don’t like the truth that some women prefer mother hood and that this desire is fuelling the work at home trend – I decided to make it longer.
I’m behind the stay at home moms myself if this is their choice. (As if you couldn’t tell!)
I consider this ABC report mere propaganda trying to demonize women who – as in the fable of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” – saw that feminists wanted them just to be men who loathed their own child producing architecture. In response – as in the fable – they spoke the truth and revealed the nakedness of the other side.
It’s the “breeders” who – if anything can keep it alive – will keep the economy alive so that there are positions outside the home for women to occupy.
From ABCNews.com
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.
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