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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have 2 DDs in elementary school and an infant son.  I had a professional life before children, but after 2nd DD was born decided to SAH.  Recently, my young daughters have declared more than once, "When I grow up, I'm not going to work, I'm gonna get married and stay home with my children!"  Yikes.  This makes me cringe, even though its the choice I have made for now.  They are young, but I've talked with them about college, about the importance of self reliance, about my life before my SAHM stint and the possibility of my going back someday.  They reply with a sort of   - "ok, I'll go to school, get a job, but only until I have kids, then I'm staying home."

I don't regret where I am, but I didn't go through life, school, college, graduate school, career with the mindset that it was just until I found a husband and had some kids! Any other SAHMs think about what kind of role models we are for our girls because we are not working outside of the home?
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Your impulse is correct because you have basically stuck a thumb in the eye of the feminists of the 60s and made their work for financial equality for women in vain.

Feminism wasn't about getting more choices for women. It was about economic empowerment.

And, yes, your actions speak more loudly than any words. This is what they'll remember: You, at home. With them. They value that, why don't you?[/quote]

You must be having a bad day.  Feminism is about choice; it didn't, and doesn't, mean that every woman should work every day of their lives.  Besides, economic empowerment means that some women would have to forgo their career passion, if it didn't pay the caregivers?    Your action of denigrating women will make your daughters hate you, and your sons hate women.  Be careful. [/quote]

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