Women who stay at home, homemakers, to maintain the home, the kids who are young etc.; why the hell can't we as a society compensate her, yes PAY her something for she has stymied her career
Women who stay at home, homemakers, to maintain the home, the kids who are young etc.; why the hell can't we as a society compensate her, yes PAY her something for she has stymied her career
IMO, women careers must not suffer because they are at home; if she can manage both then power to her but we must make it so when she steps out to start her family etc., her job is PROTECTED
Moms don't suffer staying home, raising children and homeschooling them. They are the ones who benefit along with their children. My wife used to say, "Why would I send him off to school when he turns five? I don't want to miss anything." Each of us worked part-time, so I also got a lot of time with my son helping homeschool him and hanging out. We "suffered" financially, but neither of us cared. We have no regrets. Our son is now 25.
American families did not need two incomes for the first 200 years of this nation. End The Federal Reserve, and they will not again. End welfare, and No Fault divorce. Have children out of wedlock, they will starve. Make Marriage Great again. Make our economy great again.
Oh, the same people who destroyed the family, created No Fault Divorce in 1926. (Trotsky, aka Bronstein).
Hi, Doc! I stayed home with all 3 of my girls all the way through college, and I wouldn’t have done it any other way; however, that’s really hard for most - financially speaking. We need to fix our government so that they don’t take so much of our money. If we got to keep more of our money, then more mamas (or papas) could stay home, which would be awesome. I love your idea of trying to help lift the parent and help support that parent and family. It’s very thoughtful of you to think of us. I agree: we are off kilter with all of this stuff, and I do think that so much of it comes from the the need to lower our taxes so that we aren’t finding everything under the sun - except ourselves 💔
i like this i was a stay at home mom until my kids were done with school then i went to work. i raised 3 very productive kids and you can tell by a kid if they have a stay at home parent or not. i think they are more rounded. i never had been given a dime but the love of my kids and the satisfaction that i did a pretty good job raising them is the best pay in the world. i never missed a thing. i feel bad for moms who can't do that it is very sad to me. you can tell though not that it is their fault but you can tell the difference in the kids imo
The government does not need to compensate stay at home moms; it will just give them that much more reason to intrude upon parenting and our children. I made the decision to stay home, even though at the time I was the primary breadwinner. We had just bought our first house, and we knew that if my husband’s earnings didn’t double, we would have to put the house on the market and sell it.
I was a pharmaceutical rep🤮, company car, and made enough money to hire a nanny. But we decided that I needed to do the harder job and stay home and raise our children. We believed that this was what the Lord wanted me to do and so we obeyed. By the end of that year, the Lord tripled, my husband’s earnings and we were able to stay in our home. Husbands and wives need to make the decision about whether maintaining a lifestyle is more important than raising their children or paying someone else to do it and reaping the consequences that we see all around us today. I don’t care if it’s the husband or the wife that stays home to raise their children ; that’s a decision that the couples can make between themselves as they evaluate the needs at home. The government wants nothing more than for people to cede our children to the state.
There are no guarantees but you won’t ever have to live with regretting the decision to raise your own children .
Noble intentions... which would seem to lead to within inches of Universal Basic Income, which also seems like a nice idea, until..... OOPS, before you know it, you walked happily and willingly right into CBDC's and a global totalitarian nightmare. The devil is always in the detail and this is not so simple as you make it out to be.
I’ve been homeschooling my daughter since 2019. Since she is on the autism spectrum, (high functioning) the school refused to remove her from the special needs program where she was learning nothing and also being traumatized by the fits/behaviors of other children.
I was a nurse for 14 years but it felt like a blessing to be out of the workforce after the mess of 2020.
Being on one income is hard. I’m not ever asking for a handout. But the outright disrespect I have faced from other people for educating my daughter and quitting my job is the most difficult, (still) to acclimate to.
I simply believe, and have said to certain people that my daughter is more important to me than the money, or the facade of respect from others.
I grew up in a low-income rural area and graduated from a Top 10 university and was doing well in a career that I enjoyed. I’m still paying student loans, but I’ve been home for 16 years with a vaccine-injured child. I’d never ask anyone to compensate me for the time I’ve spent to help him. I just want him to have a life and future. If there’s a way he can be compensated for the sacrifices he’s made in his childhood or he could have a healthy future, I’m all for it.
I had corporate career, positions for major media companies and music business and nursing prior to giving up my career to rise a child. I also held board positions for community organizations which added to the value of my thriving community and did a lot of volunteer work. The societal impact of volunteering is worth something along with holding a family together and raising a child who will have a lot to offer the next generations. A lot of our problems today are due to the lack of the roots of society, not enough volunteers to do important work that makes communities strong. Both parents having to work means little time is left to be part of the community in meaningful ways. We have suffered as a society because these roles of volunteers have gone unfilled. They have also been poo pooed as not important because don’t ya know the money career people are the movers and shakers. That’s what success is right?! I’ll never forget when I left my movie channel job in California for Tennessee to raise my baby, my boss’s boss left a voicemail to my team wishing me well and said she “hopes I know what I’m doing!” I miss having a career, but not that one. I wish I could get back into the work force again in a meaningful way. A lot of my friends who gave up their careers are in the same boat but they luckily are younger so they have a better chance because of that. Anyone who doesn’t see the sacrifice of leaving their career to raise children isn’t being honest. How do you compensate for that sacrifice? I don’t think you can. Not with our current values and system. Honestly, we were better off in my parents generation where a family could make it on one income and there was a much better sense of community.
My wife works a limited amount of hours per week. But to be fair, we homeschool, she has other activities she choose outside of home. She ultimately decided to be a stay at home Mom. She makes her choices, she’s an adult. I don’t force her into things she doesn’t want to do.
So the government should give an income to stay-at-home mothers? Sorry...that’s a crummy idea. Sometimes all
It takes is learning to live frugally, doing without some luxuries, and saying no to extravagances. I have a good friend with three children. She’s a stay-at-home mom and homeschools. No cellphones. No new cars in the driveway. No going to restaurants. No big vacations or designer clothing. They make it work with ingenuity and discipline. Paying moms to stay home? Just another form of welfare and the government owns you.
I could not agree more, Dr. Alexander! I stayed at home with both of my boys, sacrificing much to do so! I would not have anyone watching my children’s firsts!! Every mother should be able to mother their children full-time! I lost my youngest son in a tragic motorcycle accident two years ago at 31 years of age and I know for sure he appreciated the sacrifices I made! I think my oldest would have loved a second income to meet his “wants” as he is a little into materialism! I pray he realizes exactly what I gave up to be a full-time mother! I did go back to school at 42, when I was going through a divorce and finished my undergraduate AND graduate degrees but due to an accident where I was working part-time, I would never work in my field of gerontology! I will never regret staying home with my boys OR all the education I was blessed to get as an adult! God is good and I believe He honors those that make sacrifices for their family!
God created the family and the family structure. He created women to be mothers and keepers of the home. I am a woman and can tell you there is no higher calling than to be a wife and mother…to raise my children which includes ALL aspects of their lives from the food they eat to providing their entire education. There is no car, no “career”, no wardrobe or any other material item that is more important than my children and their well-being. This country went to hell when women rejected their God-given calling and exchanged it for the women’s lib lie (the “feminist” mistake).
Moms don't suffer staying home, raising children and homeschooling them. They are the ones who benefit along with their children. My wife used to say, "Why would I send him off to school when he turns five? I don't want to miss anything." Each of us worked part-time, so I also got a lot of time with my son helping homeschool him and hanging out. We "suffered" financially, but neither of us cared. We have no regrets. Our son is now 25.
American families did not need two incomes for the first 200 years of this nation. End The Federal Reserve, and they will not again. End welfare, and No Fault divorce. Have children out of wedlock, they will starve. Make Marriage Great again. Make our economy great again.
Oh, the same people who destroyed the family, created No Fault Divorce in 1926. (Trotsky, aka Bronstein).
Hi, Doc! I stayed home with all 3 of my girls all the way through college, and I wouldn’t have done it any other way; however, that’s really hard for most - financially speaking. We need to fix our government so that they don’t take so much of our money. If we got to keep more of our money, then more mamas (or papas) could stay home, which would be awesome. I love your idea of trying to help lift the parent and help support that parent and family. It’s very thoughtful of you to think of us. I agree: we are off kilter with all of this stuff, and I do think that so much of it comes from the the need to lower our taxes so that we aren’t finding everything under the sun - except ourselves 💔
i like this i was a stay at home mom until my kids were done with school then i went to work. i raised 3 very productive kids and you can tell by a kid if they have a stay at home parent or not. i think they are more rounded. i never had been given a dime but the love of my kids and the satisfaction that i did a pretty good job raising them is the best pay in the world. i never missed a thing. i feel bad for moms who can't do that it is very sad to me. you can tell though not that it is their fault but you can tell the difference in the kids imo
The government does not need to compensate stay at home moms; it will just give them that much more reason to intrude upon parenting and our children. I made the decision to stay home, even though at the time I was the primary breadwinner. We had just bought our first house, and we knew that if my husband’s earnings didn’t double, we would have to put the house on the market and sell it.
I was a pharmaceutical rep🤮, company car, and made enough money to hire a nanny. But we decided that I needed to do the harder job and stay home and raise our children. We believed that this was what the Lord wanted me to do and so we obeyed. By the end of that year, the Lord tripled, my husband’s earnings and we were able to stay in our home. Husbands and wives need to make the decision about whether maintaining a lifestyle is more important than raising their children or paying someone else to do it and reaping the consequences that we see all around us today. I don’t care if it’s the husband or the wife that stays home to raise their children ; that’s a decision that the couples can make between themselves as they evaluate the needs at home. The government wants nothing more than for people to cede our children to the state.
There are no guarantees but you won’t ever have to live with regretting the decision to raise your own children .
Noble intentions... which would seem to lead to within inches of Universal Basic Income, which also seems like a nice idea, until..... OOPS, before you know it, you walked happily and willingly right into CBDC's and a global totalitarian nightmare. The devil is always in the detail and this is not so simple as you make it out to be.
I’ve been homeschooling my daughter since 2019. Since she is on the autism spectrum, (high functioning) the school refused to remove her from the special needs program where she was learning nothing and also being traumatized by the fits/behaviors of other children.
I was a nurse for 14 years but it felt like a blessing to be out of the workforce after the mess of 2020.
Being on one income is hard. I’m not ever asking for a handout. But the outright disrespect I have faced from other people for educating my daughter and quitting my job is the most difficult, (still) to acclimate to.
I simply believe, and have said to certain people that my daughter is more important to me than the money, or the facade of respect from others.
Happening as gov’t realized pushing women into the work force gave them more taxes!!! Stayed home with my kids and so glad I did!!!
I grew up in a low-income rural area and graduated from a Top 10 university and was doing well in a career that I enjoyed. I’m still paying student loans, but I’ve been home for 16 years with a vaccine-injured child. I’d never ask anyone to compensate me for the time I’ve spent to help him. I just want him to have a life and future. If there’s a way he can be compensated for the sacrifices he’s made in his childhood or he could have a healthy future, I’m all for it.
I had corporate career, positions for major media companies and music business and nursing prior to giving up my career to rise a child. I also held board positions for community organizations which added to the value of my thriving community and did a lot of volunteer work. The societal impact of volunteering is worth something along with holding a family together and raising a child who will have a lot to offer the next generations. A lot of our problems today are due to the lack of the roots of society, not enough volunteers to do important work that makes communities strong. Both parents having to work means little time is left to be part of the community in meaningful ways. We have suffered as a society because these roles of volunteers have gone unfilled. They have also been poo pooed as not important because don’t ya know the money career people are the movers and shakers. That’s what success is right?! I’ll never forget when I left my movie channel job in California for Tennessee to raise my baby, my boss’s boss left a voicemail to my team wishing me well and said she “hopes I know what I’m doing!” I miss having a career, but not that one. I wish I could get back into the work force again in a meaningful way. A lot of my friends who gave up their careers are in the same boat but they luckily are younger so they have a better chance because of that. Anyone who doesn’t see the sacrifice of leaving their career to raise children isn’t being honest. How do you compensate for that sacrifice? I don’t think you can. Not with our current values and system. Honestly, we were better off in my parents generation where a family could make it on one income and there was a much better sense of community.
My wife works a limited amount of hours per week. But to be fair, we homeschool, she has other activities she choose outside of home. She ultimately decided to be a stay at home Mom. She makes her choices, she’s an adult. I don’t force her into things she doesn’t want to do.
I agree. Women never became "liberated" they just had their biological function devalued and their workload doubled
So the government should give an income to stay-at-home mothers? Sorry...that’s a crummy idea. Sometimes all
It takes is learning to live frugally, doing without some luxuries, and saying no to extravagances. I have a good friend with three children. She’s a stay-at-home mom and homeschools. No cellphones. No new cars in the driveway. No going to restaurants. No big vacations or designer clothing. They make it work with ingenuity and discipline. Paying moms to stay home? Just another form of welfare and the government owns you.
I could not agree more, Dr. Alexander! I stayed at home with both of my boys, sacrificing much to do so! I would not have anyone watching my children’s firsts!! Every mother should be able to mother their children full-time! I lost my youngest son in a tragic motorcycle accident two years ago at 31 years of age and I know for sure he appreciated the sacrifices I made! I think my oldest would have loved a second income to meet his “wants” as he is a little into materialism! I pray he realizes exactly what I gave up to be a full-time mother! I did go back to school at 42, when I was going through a divorce and finished my undergraduate AND graduate degrees but due to an accident where I was working part-time, I would never work in my field of gerontology! I will never regret staying home with my boys OR all the education I was blessed to get as an adult! God is good and I believe He honors those that make sacrifices for their family!
God created the family and the family structure. He created women to be mothers and keepers of the home. I am a woman and can tell you there is no higher calling than to be a wife and mother…to raise my children which includes ALL aspects of their lives from the food they eat to providing their entire education. There is no car, no “career”, no wardrobe or any other material item that is more important than my children and their well-being. This country went to hell when women rejected their God-given calling and exchanged it for the women’s lib lie (the “feminist” mistake).
Agree with the sentiment. Like everything else someone has to pay for it. Who might that be?