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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP wants national acknoweldgment, respect and honor for staying at home. I don't know about UBI, universal healthcare, family leave, etc. Maybe he/she want SAHP History Month? A day to recognize a SAHP that contributed to society? Maybe OP has some suggestions? Or maybe instead of exploring career choices in HS, OP wants them to explore a future in SAHP? But I would think Home Ec and Child Development classes would fall under that category. OP can you clarify your ideas more?[/quote]

Not the OP, but I'm replying anyway.

It's a structural problem. Women and men (not many) who stay at home full-time to care for children are unpaid. [b]Nannies, OTOH, are paid. Why are SAHPs not paid? Why is that not mandatory? [/b]

And let's face it, most SAHPs are SAHMs, not SAHDs. I've known only ONE SAHD in 25 years.

Yes, I want part-time employment to be required for all jobs, with benefits commensurate with hours. There may be jobs where you must work in an office for 8-10 hours every day, but there are always exceptions. Most professional jobs can be done from home, unless you're a chef or a doctor, etc.

Universal health care and family leave are only part of the issue. Working at home for everyone who can is another issue. Jobs requiring sitting in an office to do the exact same job you could do from home are wasteful. With climate change, we need to end the ridiculous and pointless commute for many people.

With structural change will come social change, and more respect for SAHPs. [/quote]

Plus they have had to have had sufficient earnings from paid work over a period of time.

You seem to really be mixing two things here.  Remote work has little to do with whether SAHPs should be compensated.

And the nanny analogy is off.  People pay for services rendered.  Who exactly do you think should be paying the SAHPs?  
I could pay a plumber to fix my sink, or I could do it myself.  Should somebody pay me for it?[/quote]

[b]Doesn’t state pay for unemployed moms?[/b] If not paying SAHM, at lease acknowledge their contribution to the society and give them more opportunities to come back to part time work and to get social security for the period they were laboring to raise future labor.[/quote]

A criteria for unemployment in every state is that you are not unemployed by choice, are ready and willing to accept employment without delay, and are actively seeking to do so.  Not really on point at all.  
What would "more opportunities" for part-time work look like?[/quote][/quote]

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