If motherhood was a job...?

Question

... what should be the hourly rate of pay?

Being a good mother adds useful and productive people to society; being a bad or absent mother creates a society filled with neurotic losers e.g. http://www.accg.net/antisocial.htm

Obviously feminism has totally undervalued the role of motherhood (see Section 5 here http://www.freewebs.com/feminism-evaluated

but don't you think there is a good case for making motherhood a paid job with as much respect as is given other jobs that are important to society?

Answer 1

How has feminism "totally undervalued" the role of motherhood??

I know alot of feminists and they think it is a wonderful thing to be a mother.... i am a mother i love my child and i am a feminist and i think being a mother is very hard but rewarding work.

Also when you have a little newborn mothers are paid 5000 'baby bonus' then every year i think its now 500 dollars if you need the help and claim the money, but i haven't done that do i am not 100 percent on how that works. Some mothers even get alot of help from the government if they choose to, until they can go back to work. (or choose to go back to work)

Being a mum is like working 2 full time jobs i could go through step by step what i do but i wont cause thats silly because well i love my job... and i respect mothers and i respect feminists (who by the way aren't out to get everyone feminism is about equality and women being able to choose their own destiny!)

Answer 2

PRICELESS!!!

(Randell, did you give me a thumbs down? I'm going to have to tell your mommy the way you feel)

And this talk about stay at home moms devaluing a woman's role in society. Your an idiot, society has devalued the role of mothers and the jobs they do at home in building and maintaining a family! I challenge you to say that to a mom that is busting her hump to keep a family cohesive, And the only thing your right on is that fathers should pay a closer role in the development of families by participating at what is going on in the home but supporting your family while you are away from them so they can have even the basic needs is playing a role. Basically I believe fathers are there more then ever. Lets not make the choice of people that want to make what the believe is a good thing, a bad thing. This is a free country you know, and if people don't do things you don't agree with doesn't make it wrong. Stop devaluing the role of stay at home moms you playing into the hands of people that are trying to reengineer socity to a socialist state of affair and that removes personal freedoms.

Answer 3

We already pay women to be stay-at-home mothers. It's called welfare. And that has worked out really well for society, hasn't it?

Answer 4

No.  I am frankly appalled by the idea of motherhood being a paid job.  One of the major benefits of being a mother is to get away from the utter tedium of paid employment.  

Answer 5

about 15$ for every working hour. not included on breaks. and 50% bonus when it comes to childcare. other than that is a responsible husband who doesn't lie

Answer 6

personally i don't think that you should be paid to look after your child because it would encourage people to have kids just for the money - some people see it as easy, you stay at home and babysit kids all day which is probably why people think stay at home mums do nothing. here in australia  we have a baby bonus and when you have a child the government pays you $3000.

Secondly who would pay you? and could you be fired if you were bad at your "Job"? Oh and if you were fired what happens to the baby/child? Would you get Health benefits and sick leave and paid vacation? Should paid maternity leave be abolished?

otherwise it would be a good thing if it was guaranteed nobody would abuse the privilege. it would be the end of the single mother struggling to make ends meet.

Answer 7

About a buck an hour.

Answer 8

Actually motherhood is not a job, it's more like a mission, You don't have to do a lot of stuff, but you want to. I'm against staying at home moms. It devalues the role of the father as an important element of the family, I think that the responsibility must be shared by both parents, therefore, they must both work in and outside the home. Besides your kid at 6 years old has school to go to, and from there on, the role of the parent during the day gets slimmer and slimmer, and let me tell you something:  staying at home is BORING, you'll wind up being just the cleaning lady, and with no goals to the future. Did you know that the majority of suicides in Medium to High income homes is related to lack of goals and plain boredom. So is alcoholism and drug dependence.

Answer 9

I'm just a child myself of the age of 16 but my mother would have to be worth more then any money i can describe but i do  believe that the government should pay these women not just for birth but monthly something like $120 a month and i do believer that  this isn't an excessive amount of money as they are chiseling us children into something that will eventually become hour president, teachers,chefs pilots the list goes on i hope this is what you meant

Answer 10

10$ an hour with a 50$ bonus per kid

Answer 11

No, I don't want a monetary value put on such a valuable and respectable position; doing so would only put it to shame.  I, personally am not the best mom in the world, nor am I the worst; however, I take pride in what I do, and it's my pride that keeps me from begging to be paid for what is in my personal opinion my natural role.  I, in other words, have nothing to complain about.

Answer 12

it is a priceless job, but if we were in a society were a job paid in accordance to the value it added to society then atheletes would not make millions a year while we ***** about paying teachers anything north of 50-75k.  I am not a teacher, but a father and sole provider for my family.  I consider half my salery to be paid to me and the other half being paid to my stay at home wife/mommy

Answer 13

i 100% agree with randall flag

Answer 14

Not a thing that in this world could pay for a mothers job.  Mom, you will be rewarded in heaven. Trust me.

Answer 15

I agree wholeheartedly that the 'goodness' of a mother has a direct impact on our society.  So in answering your question, I will base my thoughts on that assertion.

Simply giving birth does not deserve payment of any kind.  Truly - that does not make one a mother - it makes them a fertile female.  The compensation for motherhood would commence once tasks are completed - without delegation.  And she should be paid by the task - the more she does, the more she gets paid.  

Then, we would have a system whereby she gets increases when certain levels are achieved (walking, talking, using the loo, tying shoelaces).  But, as every job has time frames attached to completion, she would have to accomplish this in a set out time frame - and penalized when that time frame is not met.  I realize, people will say that each child is different, and that they learn and develop at different progression rates.  But you see - once you commodotize motherhood, you also commodotize the child.  You cannot have it both ways!

Answer 16

Interesting assessment, considering that feminists were among the first to suggest figures outlining how much a homemaker would be paid annually for all the various tasks they performed.

Anyway, assuming there was some authority to see to it that homemakers earned a wage (not the government, they have enough to pay for) and they actually wanted one, I'd say $15-$20 per hour would be a fair amount.

Answer 17

It really is a shame, what feminism has done to the family. Social discord seems to be in.

Well I'd argue that it is a paid job. The mother receives the income and manages the house, she often has more responsibility than the husband who is tied to his boss. There are many benefits, for example, a good mother is a lot less likely to the spend the last twenty years of her life, lonely or in a home wishing for a visitor.

Bit of a moot point for me anyway, a sahm is going to be rare, only for the rich.

Marriage and family are dead ducks unless some social movement like anti-feminism equalism or humanism mobilises quickly but this is unlikely, we are too busy fighting amongst ourselves and trying to make a living.

RIO, that point was used to create outrage and anger mothers, to get families divided, increase the divorce rate, to create discord, to create more taxpayers and borrowers, not to help mothers..