What Would Happen if Women Left the Workplace?

Amen AVBunyan, the world is turned upside down in these last days.

 

*c4k quietly agrees with the principle of the OP*


...but don't tell anybody

 

Great Post! I agree.

 

I agree.

The one that I think of the most is:

My wife has never worked outside the home (she does more than work inside the home.) Even before we had kids she didn't want to work outside, and there was no need to.

My mom has more stress at work than she ever did with us at home.

 

I can remember as a boy alwats coming home from school to find my mom at the door - not a key under the mat, not a babysitter... ah yes...

Now don't get me wrong - I think that women can do (almost) any job as well as men. But our main job is raising children in a Godly home. With 2 working parents the homelife, in terms of attention AND supervision, in compromised.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with a woman working - but all of us, men and women, should put our kids' upbringing before careers, money etc.

 

Have any of you ever lived as a family of 3 on $4.10 an hour? That's what my husband was making when my son was born. We lived in a one-bedroom apt. and had no car (until my son was 8 mos. old when my father gave us some money to buy a used car). I stayed home with my son as I believed in it, though I was not a Christian (I was practicing astrology, preparing for the exam to be licensed). Eventually, though I had to get a part-time job, which I did not want to do. Later, I was able to work at home with astrology while I was still married.

My marriage ended before I became a believer (he left) and I had to support my son. I then became a believer but had to continue to work as who else was there to support us?

Let's keep in mind the circumstances some people find themselves in. Ideally, yes, a woman should be at home with children (even until they are teens, I believe) but I've known too many people who could not pay rent, buy food, and have a car on one salary.

 

"*c4k quietly agrees with the principle of the OP*"

 

So you had trouble making ends meet while you observed times for a living?

 

Agreed, with the exceptions you noted such as circumstances beyond one's control. (single moms, husband unable to work, etc)

But, there's really no solution. We can't turn back time or stop what's already in place. We can whine and preach about it, but women staying home to solely take care of the home and family with men bearing the responsibility to provide isn't all that acceptable anymore, and there's no way of going back to how things were.
Or is there? What exactly should we do about this problem AVBunyan? We can talk about it all we want, but do you really think society will start going "backwards" because a small section of Christianity thinks it's a good idea?
Gina

 

The promises in the bible still apply to us today. God says if we seek the kingdom and His righteousness, we need not take thought for what we shall eat or what we shall wear. If a family follows their conviction that the woman should be a keeper at home, I have seen the Lord bless it over and over again. Many of the couples I know who have both been working are/were having serious marital problems, including myself.

 

Most Americans have a warped view of what constitutes a "need" and a "desire".

I agree with the lead post in most respects. My wife has stayed home since she was about 4 months pregnant with our first child.

Point #1 might be more of a problem than you imagine. We don't have an unemployment problem and haven't really since the Great Depression. The worst since then was the Carter years I think and then it was still under 10%.

The problem would be a labor shortage causing both wages and prices to go up... but prices probably much more sharply. This would erode the real wealth of the country until technology or population caught up with the labor shortage.

I think it would be worthwhile but it would not be without costs.

I am not sure who ever got the idea that women at home rearing their children weren't doing the most important job in a society or an economy.

Remarkably... or maybe not... the people paid to keep many children at day care make less than half those that fix our cars. I am not advocating day care but rather pointing out how little priority our society puts on the training of children.

 

No, we had trouble making ends meet because I was staying home with my son. When I started practicing astrology, that allowed me to stay home. I wanted to stay home and be there when my son got home from school.

After I was a believer (and divorced), I was the sole support and had to work. So ironincally, I was able to stay home more before I was a believer and had to work after I was a believer.

 

How true. Many parents talk about how they will need to have X number of dollars to put their child through college. I see parents doing exactly that while their children are playing and not studying. So often the best students are not from the U.S. Take a look at where the bulk of the graduate students are from.

Parents need to forget the need and teach what is best.

 

I know, my brother is a car mechanic. He makes almost twice what a starting teacher makes.

 

In biblical context this is for church.

With what my husband makes being kind of average here I see no way a family with children could live on it without goverment help. And my son makes even less and they are expecting. So it depends on whether or not you want to eat. We barely make it on what my husband makes and if I had young children we were responsable for we would not be able to feed them or go to the doctor. I remember those days and if I had it all to do over I'd have gone to work. My kids would never have gone without food.

With milk being over $3. a gallon and gas around $2. a gallon, and food prices going up every month, my utilies go up at least twice a year, I'm not sure how anyone is able to even choose to stay home. My husband only makes $8.15, and there are plenty of jobs here paying a lot less. Rent, basic utilities, food, clothes, car maintance and insurance, costs a lot more then that $8.15 if there are children, and thats not including health insurance or doctor and meds bills, glasses or a dentist.
I can remember getting 1 pair of shoes a year, and that only when the previous pair wore out.
My kids were taunted terriably(and we knew nothing about it until after they grew up) at school and even sunday school becasue they were poor and wore used clothes(they were usually free and half worn out themselves) and worn out looking shoes. They were so miserable and all they wanted was decent clothes(they didn't even have to be new, just better looking used, which cost more) and new shoes. Is that too much for a kid to ask.

 

I think it is more important to have someone home when teens are involved. LOL

 

Partly, but in some scenarios, unemployment would go up because of lowered demand for many goods and services and sinking prices.

Karen