Should the lovely women who choose to pursue more traditional roles be placed on the endangered species list.

Question

These women who make the world a nicer warmer (tidy and better decorated ) place as wives mothers and homemakers are becoming fewer and fewer, shouldn't they receive some special recognition and protection before they completely vanish ?

Answer 1

Yes except for those who have the money to stay home.  I agree they should get a medal.

PS: here's a joke for you all.  Answers isn't posting it yet:

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Answer 2

Well hmmm, I have four kids but I am also a co manager. And I have a husband. But here's the real kicker that seems to disturb people about me, my husband........He's White...Oh dear...now what...

Answer 3

you mean the women who dote on thier husbands and families for 40 years, never getting thier own job or education and relying solely on the provision of thier husbands, to be dumped in the future, having their whole world crash down, and left with some pitiful alimony cheque and having to rebuild thier entire lives, with no chance of any lucrative career

should those women who trusted and loved thier husbands and trusted his vows " as long as you both shall live" be placed on the endangered species list? i hope so

i hope they become extinct  

Answer 4

I will accept a brass plaque. Just be sure to spell my name correctly. [lol] ♥ ∞

Answer 5

No, they're being rebred. As men.

Why is it that people assume that if anyone's going to stay at home, it should be the woman? Attitudes like this are what make some stay-at-home dads feel bad about their positions.

Answer 6

Yes, and for those who say we are doing future harm to ourselves. I work part time at my children's school, and pursue my education but I got the bulk of that out of the way before the babies. I tried full time working mother and it was horrible, I missed many of my daughters firsts.

I think it is not impossible to be a mother and your own person. But my family will always come first as it should.

Answer 7

I agree with you that it is nice to have a tidy and well decorated place, but are you saying that it is impossible to have that and not go to work? I work 32 hours a week, am a college student and a mother of two and my house stays fairly clean, and is very well decorated considering our budget. My mother had 8 kids by my dad and was a house wife who kept the house clean and and decorated. My dad left her after 8 kids and 20 years, now she's raising whats left of em on her own without any job history AND she has to work as a waitress to feed them all. Let me tell you this, there is a h**l of a lot more to raising kids than a clean house. Why do you think that I am having to work so hard to get my degree? My parents haven't given me any financial help. But I want to make a good life for my sons, and I don't care what I have to do to get it. My husband sure as h**l doesn't make enough money to take care of us by himself in this economy. Do you know why? His mom didn't work, so they couldn't afford to send him to college or give him ANY sort of start in life. If you are sure that your husband won't leave you when your older, AND he makes enough money to live on and to pay for your childrens college, then I'd say, go for it girl.

Answer 8

Yes, thank gawd for that.  Women are actually considered fully-fledged, multi-faceted human beings capable of assuming MULTIPLE roles.

Answer 9

question..

these women who value home, family and children...

lets say they do all that..yet know no other trade...they depend on thier husband to provide for them ok?

say said husband leaves wife and kids for another women..therefore taking the money that his wife and kids needed to live.

Will you be there too help said wife and kids out if that happens?

see..there is nothing wrong with a woman being a wife and mother...and many wanna be that. but there also nothing wrong with a woman knowing how to do other stuff too to fall back on in case something such as her husband leaving her for another woman.

Answer 10

I don't want a medal just because my taking care of my husband and kids come first with me.  They come first and that is all there is to it. I'm dedicated to my husband and my kids and that's the way it has always been, that's the way it will always be.  I live my life for me not for other people.

Answer 11

well i work (21 hours a week) but also look after my daughter and husband. I will be taking a gap from part time job in September then will be at university for my final year of a BA Hons Early Childhood Studies degee.

This means I am educated, pursueing my career (teaching and looking after my family to. Nothing wrong with that I have a work/life balance and we are very happy.

I still care for my husband and daughter, clean, organised and believe my family is the most important thing.

my mum did the same working 20 hours as a Cardiology nurse and my parents have been together since they were 14 (40 years) and married for 34. I am very close to my parents and brother and see them everyday.

Why cant a woman do both? (If you do part time there is plenty of time to do them.

Edit: SweetNoPea - my parents raised me and my brother and had a part time career.I didnt get pregnant when I was a teenager , go to jail etc. you have a very  judgemental attitude. by working part time my mum has saved countless lives(she was awarded in our local paper) and made a real difference to the community as well as spending loads of time with us.

Answer 12

well...i dont know that theyre getting extinct...i am a mother i have stayed at home with my children for 5 years.  now that theyre bigger i have started to work.  i still cook, clean, decorate and me and my husband take care of our children.  he when im at work, me when hes at work.  there is always one parent with the kids.  i dont see the prob.  (our world is one where u cant get ahead without 2 incomes and i dont see why some people feel that one or both areas should have to suffer...we can have it all) :)

Answer 13

No, they should be lobotomized so that they can get some ambition. Ambition never killed anybody.

Answer 14

Yes which is quite sad.  

Answer 15

Just as men, such women are, indeed, in grave danger as a result of the hateful nature of modern feminism.

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ADDENDUM:  LOL... Not this beagle, but I'm the exception to the rule LOL :P

Answer 16

I'm afraid that feminism has done its work and convinced women that there is no value in being at home with their children.  We're all supposed to shove them into daycare and go off and have 'careers' (never, by any chance, just jobs).  Women who stay at home are 'wasting their lives' because they're not nose to the grindstone in some dreary office all day long.

I don't think there is any going back to the time when married women thought it was worthwhile, and even enjoyable, to be at home.  That time is gone and it's not coming back.  Personally, I regret it, but the majority of modern women seem to worship the workplace and to get their meaning from that rather than from their families.  That's life.

Why in God's name you should be considered to be 'living your own life' when you are at the beck and call of your employer all day long, rather than being in the comfort of your own home and able to do what you like, I cannot imagine.  But there it is.

Answer 17

yes they should

I have been getting h**l for not working

I want to have a family with my husband and raise my own kids not give some other person to have the right to have my children call them a mom/dad (when i have children )

I think it is so wrong for the mom  to work outside of the house when they have little kids

if they are mature enough to have s*x they should be mature enough to raise their own kids

if we had more people raising their own kids there would be less kids getting into drugs/jail/rehab/teen pregnancy

and as for a relationship between a husband and wife its hard enough with the husband at work all the time but  if the wife is always gone how are they to spend time with each even getting intimate are you saposta  schedule in s*x, boy that would be a divorce waiting to happen  

no wonder why we have a high divorce rate in the country

women should not be married if a career is more important to them

Answer 18

Women who do that are putting their own futures in jeopardy.  By not advancing a career they are in a shitload of trouble should their husband decide to leave them for a younger model (or if they just don't like each other anymore).  They'll be years behind the women who stayed working, in pay and benefits.  

Men can clean, decorate, and raise children too.

Answer 19

Sure! As long as long as we don't keep the US from drilling in Antarctica like the Polar Bears are.

Answer 20

If they can stay at home GREAT!!!

My Daughter is 2 years old and I am a single mother so i have to work. i spend lots of time with her. she is NOT being ignored by me. is it wrong for me to want to take care of MY child without taking hand outs?

I happen to think Stay At home Mothers are super and I wish I could stay home with my daughter but I can't.

Stay at Home Mothers I am happy that you can do this. but please don't look down on other mothers who are NOT lucky enough to have what you have. some are just really trying to be a good parent so please don't look down on them  

Answer 21

They haven't vanished. There are still many "housewives" out there.

A special recognition? For tending to her husband's demands only, and NOT being out in the world working and making her own money? No.

Answer 22

Now you're just being silly.