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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you who think being a stay at home mom is useless because you aren’t earning money and maybe not volunteering or doing much that is intellectual: what constitutes a “useful” life and why is that important? Can people with disabilities that prevent them from doing those things lead useful lives? [/quote]

Exactly, and apparently nannies and daycare workers are "useless" as well, since they are doing the same thing as a SAHM, except for the pay. [/quote]

All these women have internalized the idea that childcare, housework, and family organization are inherently unimportant. They are apparently not intellectual enough to understand that these jobs are devalued because they are traditionally viewed as the the work of women and the poor. They are devalued because they are hard, and rich white aristocrats didn’t want to do hard work, so they made women do it, or enslaved people to do it, or conscripted immigrants into indentured servitude to do it.

People who clean and care for children all day are lazy? Read a book, ok?[/quote]

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