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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: MSB who wrote (65021)12/5/1999 11:23:00 AM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
A woman by choice chooses to have children. She then by choice chooses to stay home and raise said children. When she comes to retirement she suggests that she (at the top of the pyramid) has a number of underlings which will contribute to her satisfactory retirement needs much in the same way one would become a multi-level marketer and sign up other distributors thereby getting a percentage of their earnings.

Well it sounds good on paper, but the bottom line is that the stay-at-home wife/mother made the choice to do so. I can't help but wonder just how much foresight was given to the choice. You spoke of responsibility (further up thread, not the post to which I'm responding) yet seem to suggest that there is an exception and somehow it should be applied towards those who, for whatever reason, are unable to maintain a livable lifestyle.

MSB, Alexander has already addressed the issue of birth control, so I'll not belabor it here. However, I too can remember the days before modern contraception and there was a great deal less choice about becoming pregnant, especially for couples in a fulfilling marriage.

On the other hand, you are overlooking something equally important, that in many families the husband and wife together decide that her rearing the children herself on a full-time basis and making a home for the family is the best role that she can play in enabling her husband's success in the employment sector. In fact, I know of a few families in which it is the husband who took on this role so that his wife could feel safe when working long hours or traveling that the family is in good hands. Why should this role have no economic value? And if it does, why should this role not be recognized monetarily?

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