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My friend is a housewife/ stay-at-home-mom, and she gets judged by some ladies for not working. But why does she have to justify her lifestyle? It's not like she is refusing to work and asking others for help. Her husband makes enough money so she is not bothering anyone for anything.
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I am sorry your friend is being judged. Perhaps she can be friends with some rational men-folk? |
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And not sure what they mean when they say she needs to be "contributing" when they have five kids. She does contribute in so many ways even though not financially. All the effort she puts into her household/ home schooling is priceless. |
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Is it possible that some friends are jealous of her? Nice hub with good job etc. Whether or not she contributes is not their business. That would be like asking what she pays for her mortgage each month...a boundary issue. I don't know them but I imagine they are playing out some sort of personal insecurity. Perhaps they secretly envy her lifestyle in some way?? And yes, she is obviously working hard in life...there are various forms of work. Work in the home is of no less value than out. Sorry she has some judgmental folks around. Not a nice feeling. |
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YES! I have fought this for years. I stayed home with my three kids and am still home. I take care of my husband and do all the "traditional" housewifey things. My youngest is 15 and she still needs me and loves that I am home. I can take care of her when she is sick and there is usually a nice meal when everyone comes home. I had so many women say things like:
"i wish I could afford to stay home" "Why dont you volunteer, youre home anyway" "must be nice" "Do you ever think about doing something with your life?" We give all sorts of credit to farmers raising cows and pigs and here I am raising HUMANS and I have to justify myself. __________________ "I carried a watermelon?" President of the no F's given society. |
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So true, women can be absolute *****es. And bringing up kids is a full time job in itself, it's conditioning that makes people think everyone should have a paid job and be paying taxes or they don't deserve to exist. Parenting is work, just because you are not contributing tax does not mean it is less valuable; it's one of the most important jobs to get right in the world, as you are shaping the personality, values and health of human beings, which will affect what kind of life they have, and how they treat and are treated by others. |
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Reminds me of the online wars when my then husband and I were looking at the numbers and sorting through long term goals with the kids. I was working full time 52weeks a year when my oldest was born. Daycare was $297/week at that time. There was no price/bundle deal for 2 kids in daycare. Was $600/week even going to be worth it? Could budgets be adjusted to stay home? Was the extra few dollars(well I think closer to $50) a month at that time worth the aggregation? Wouldn't it be better to be there for the kids? Not have to dip into unpaid fmla time when called out for fevers etc?
So stay at home it was. I became pregnant just as I was handing in my resignation anyways with baby #3. I had had a lengthy maternity leave with baby #2 and had a true taste for what being home would feel like. Even now I work school hours and I do really enjoy being here for them especially entering the teen years which was a very huge part of that stay home discussion. I see so many before and after school programs along with summer programs for working families and that's a fair means to ensuring kids are safe and occupied. But judgement...I've no room for at all. I wouldn't judge a working mom as I don't know her details and I certainly wouldn't judge a mom home either as I don't know hers either. Tossing who contributes what when and where to taxes and society?? Are they out of their minds? |
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I just want to share that I am not a parent. My mother stayed at home to raise myself and my siblings while our father worked. Later, my mother returned to work due to financial problems. I have a sister who is a working mother. She loves her children and her job. Our other sister (not a parent) deems her "selfish" and "not a good mother" because she is a working parent. (???)
I support all women. Mothers or not. Staying at home or out in the workplace. If only we could be kind and understanding toward each other regardless of our differing life choices. This world will bring each of us plenty of knocks and falls, men and women, and so the petty judgments and comparisons only serve to add more pain. I recently chatted with a new mother who feels that she gets judged by various people in her life for every single parenting decision she makes. I believe the only other person who should be weighing in on those decisions is her husband. Other folks should mind their own. |
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I am not a mother myself, but my friends who are mothers say other mothers can be very judgmental of the way they raise their children. One friend can't breastfeed due to breast reduction surgery, and other mothers still give her a hard time for using formula. I am in no position to judge of course, but I don't think other mothers are really either.
I'm sorry about your friend, and I agree that raising 5 kids is work. I can't imagine doing that. |
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I became a "just shove off" type after dealing with my first borns collick the lack of real support after all those platitudes. I'm sure there's many other things that hardened that side of me somewhere along the way. |
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My mom couldn't have my dad in the room. It wasn't the delivery room that was the heart of the matter for me, by now fathers get to be present. It was in the room after, where he stayed overnight. It was our first child afterall. That's where the sense of unwelcome came from. |
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I haven't but will check it out. My grandmother spilled the beans about deliveries in the 50s at least as we discussed all these pressures that women place upon one another. Natural v CSection or Epidural or No Epidural and the war it creates, unnecessarily. We're darn lucky to be awake and able to bond immediately never mind the rest of it.
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Why is it that when an educated woman stays home to raise her kids, she is seen as "wasting her degree?" |
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Ugh. I'm sorry someone talked to you like that, Sarah.
It's one's attitude in life and how she chooses to spend time that really matters. A woman's payroll record could say "40 hours," but it does not mean that her day has been more productive than that of a stay-at-home mom. For example, which of the below had the most productive use of time from noon to 1230 p.m. : a). A stay-at-home mom who cooked healthy food for her little ones and taught them manners; or b). A working woman who spent that time intruding into her co-worker's personal email (since the co-worker went to lunch without signing out of her account...bad idea ), and gossiping about her in the break room. It's not what one does for living, but the way she lives that really matters. Last edited by Anonymous43949; Feb 25, 2019 at 11:44 PM.. Reason: add hugs/ examples |
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I think being a housewife is fine. I chose to work some after my children were born, but I think a woman is doing well if she works in the home. Too many children are suffering these days from not really having a stable home life--with a mom there when they return from school.
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