What are all of your opinions on women being a stay at home wife? Is it good for the family? Do the children benefit? I have personal experience with having a mother be a stay at home mom. I enjoyed having a home cooked meal almost every night. It was also nice having my mother around and not always at work.
Do you think that women are above staying home, taking care of children, and doing housework? Or do you beleive it is an honorable position that should be considered more often?
And I guess we can consider the other side of it, should men sometimes stay at home and take care of the house and children? Could they do as a good of a job? Or is it strictly a woman's job because of their hardwiring to nurture?
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I believe that it is important for a mother to be in home for the infant years of a child's life. I think that once the children begin school, then the mother should work if they desire to. I personally didn't get to experience a stay at home mother. While I was growing up, she was working and attending college at night. This required me to make dinner for my mom. The role was reversed. I believe that children, to a degree, should spend some time raising themselves and learning responsibility early. With respects about which sex gets to stay at home, I believe that it shouldn't matter who stays home. That should be a choice that is made between the couple themselves.
What about both parents working or both parents staying home? And why does the mother always cook? Fathers can cook too ya know! My Grandpa is a great cook.
Yes there are some reasons why women should stay at home and be the house wife so cleaning can get done, laundry and not having to put the kids in daycare BUT on the other side with wives working too, putting the kids into daycare helps them group and learn also play with other kids.
And there is nothing wrong with the men staying at home with the kids. Okay, so some things might not get done how a women would do it but the women can teach the men how to do them "right".
I think that it is important for the woman to stay at home because it is her job to clean cook and do laundry. It has always been that way and it should not change. Back in the day, women were the gatherers not the hunters and I believe that it is important for things to stay that way. I think that children do have the benefit of the mother staying at home because children dont get as much of a nurture outlook with their dads, it mostly comes from their mom. I do think that although women want to go out and do a man's work, they should remember who they are and to take care of their young and families as most women have in the past. Men are not as good for the homemaking job because they dont have experience in it. It is not in a mans blood to stay at home as the wife does.
I have to disagree with you Criffy, In saying that women were the gatherers and that is how it's just meant to be. This was how it was, however the modern woman should not be forced to live at home just because of tradition. There is also the aspect of money, most middle income families have the father and wife share the workload because there is no way that one person alone can support a blossoming family. When one parent makes enough that the other does not have to work, then you have options, until then you just have to float on.
to me i don't think it matter who stays home or not, because men and women can cook and clean its the whole 50's thing where the mother has to stay home and everything which isn't true anymore. I do understand if a mother stays home during the infancy ages to breast feed the child and etc... but after awhile the father can pick up the place where the mother left off. The benefit of the children is dependent on the parent staying home how they are treating the kids and such. you can never know which parent is more beneficial to the kids. truth be told it all goes back to who has the most time to spend with the kids, if the kids see the dad more they'll relate more to him and same as if the mom stayed home. so to answer you question both parents can do it.
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