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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just read the thread and have to say this. We are all mom. We are all women. Society is against all of us. Can't we be kind to each other. Some of us have choices and some of us don't. We all have our burdens to bare but we also have a choice about the energy we give out. Yes, this is DCUM but I really hate women on women hate. [/quote]

the sad part at the root of the sahm vs wohm arguing is that we still don't value the work that was historically mainly done by women (raising kids, household upkeep, caring for elderly, volunteering in schools or community) the same way that we would value those same hours of duty performed in traditional male working roles.  there's an expectation that this work will be cheap, if not free because in the past women had no choice but to perform it and were generally undervalued for doing so.  so women are trained to look down upon it just as many men have, historically.

whoever does this work today, be it moms, dads, sons, nieces, daycare worker, neighbor... should get the same respect and appreciation that the average working 'man' gets-work is work.  But it appears that's a long way from being the case, still.

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It's sad to see women tearing women down for performing roles that we ALL know are a LOT of work. Maybe men don't know this. But women do. And yet women are the biggest detractors of SAHMs or women who take care of the elderly, etc.[/quote]

I respect both working and SAHMs. I have been a full time working mom, part time working mom and now a SAHM. All have different challenges.

I just think it is odd to say being a SAHM is an occupation and one day I will retire from being a SAHM.[/quote]

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