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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Stay-At-Home Mom: "An Extremely Dangerous Choice" (?!)
I am a 35-year-old master's degree-holding, stay-at-home mother to a 15-month-old little boy named Jackson. I pay the bills and manage our long-term family finances. I make it my business to engage in financial research and work hard with my husband to find creative ways to ensure our family's healthy financial future. I welcome financial advice; however, I was offended—like so many—by Ms. Bennetts’ pithy, disrespectful remarks regarding being home for the loss of a tooth. Despite Ms. Vigeland's best interviewing efforts to steer her toward respectful concessions of the dignity of choosing “to stay home and work with their children,” Ms. Bennetts was unrelenting. This could have been a fantastic opportunity to educate, equip, and foster solidarity among women with children in and outside of the workplace. Ms. Bennetts chose to be divisive by taking pot shots at the reasons why women choose to stay home with their children in the first place. Disappointing and rather cliché.
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3 comments:
I am not a 35 year old woman. I am not a stay at home mother, either. However, I did find Ms. Bennett's comments horribly short-sighted.
Ms. Bennett doudts the ability of the American woman and thinks that most woman are stupid, not being to plan a financial future AND take care of a family...let alone herself. As a husband, thinking of his family, I think of my family's future...my wife does, too. I think most woman (and, stay-at-home fathers) worry about their futures. Remember...in today's world, there are the same amount of men staying at home with their children as women. Does this chick still live in the 1950's? Obviously Ms. Bennett has never been a member of a real Family or been in a loving marriage.
I bet she's ugly and hasn't been laid in years.
Ouch!
the false assumption is that financial security=success in life.
Listen not to the ramblings of Ms. Bennett; she, her money, and her book will live happily together, all three together yet inexorably alone: and when she is old and wetting herself she will wonder why her children (if they exist) are not staying with her to care for her in her time of dependence. They will send her a txt mssg. 'Sorry, ma- gotta wrk- need $$- luv U'
Oy, how I love a good (i.e., "inappropriate") ad hominem remark!
Thanks, Wompster.
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