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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]america sucks, living overseas you could have a lot more help. Why should being a stay at home mom involve scrubbing toilets that's bull shit.[/quote]

I agree with you.  You have very educated, talented, and trained women who have achieved and worked hard all their life to come to the finish line, and it is...to SAHM.  And they are on their knees scrubbing toilets after having worked interesting jobs and had interesting lives, traveled and met interesting people, and now they can't leave the house even to go to the corner store, and something doesn't sit right with them.

Some people are born to SAHM, but then some people are born to have 8 computer screens in front of them and monitor the world markets for 20 hours a day.  Most people aren't like that.

The big problem is this myth that's rammed down American women's throats that the best and most caring way to raise children is that they be raised solely by the mother, to the exclusion of everyone else: father, unmarried aunts, grandparents, and of course, anyone paid to do so.  This is untrue.  Children have been raised by the village and mothers have always gotten communal support from each other; only in modern times are mothers saddled with a mountain of electronic gadgets and appliances, and told to hole up in a big house with the kids in isolation.

Betty Friedan had it right but things don't change.[/quote]

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