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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone here really know parents who don’t “work”?[/quote]

[b]Running your household, raising your children, etc  - that's life.  It's not work.[/b][/quote]

This statement devalues the unpaid work that is done mostly by women.[/quote]

It does!

I wish I could remember what it was, but something about this came up when talking about micro loans and why they weren’t as successful as originally hypothesized.  One reason was that they were relying on women in developing countries to become entrepreneurs, and these women were already extremely busy.  Maybe they weren’t working or earning much money, but they were preparing meals, raising children, and running their households.  
And while I understand that this doesn’t look the same as US households, it’s just an example of how the unpaid labor done by women is so often discounted or assumed unimportant.  [/quote]

Actually, no one is devaluing that work. That is the entire reason that people are objecting to the term “full-time mom” to describe SAHMs. Because most working moms still do all that stuff - they prepare meals, run their households, take on the full mental load of raising their children + the physical load outside of the 40-50 hours per week they’re at work or commuting.

I personally think OP is being too sensitive, and I don’t really care what SAHMs call themselves. All that matters is how good a parent you are, whether or not you’re physically with your child for those extra 40-50 hours or not.[/quote]

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