The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission | Some common sense in the “mommy wars” | Comments http://erlc.com/ This feed provides all comments on "Some common sense in the “mommy wars”." en web-master@erlc.com ℗ & © 2010 ERLC Comment 1 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment1 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment1 While Mrs. Friedan seemed harsh in using the word “parasite”, I understand the point she was trying to make, and that no personal insult was intended. In economic theory, a parasite is a person/entity that benefits from something w/o contributing back to it. From an economic standpoint, homemakers’ efforts don’t make a contribution to the nation. I know about the studies on how many billions of $$ in unpaid work they do, but the catch is: this work doesn’t enter the larger scheme of things. It benefits their own families, but that’s where it stops.
  I think that while homemaking should be an available life choice, those who choose to be homemakers should be not supported by national resources, because they don’t contribute back to the welfare and security of the public, or the workings of the gov’t. If stay-at-home Mom needs to go to a doctor or dentist, for example, then Dad or other working family members—NOT a dear old uncle by the name of Sam—should pick up the tab.

]]> Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:43:08 CST Comment 2 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment2 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment2 Betty Friedan was a bitter haridan whose list of idiocies only began with her lifelong embrace of Stalinism and Marxist economic theory.  Her grasp of economics was so weak that her arguments fail on their own myopic terms.  The economic value of women who bear and raise children is literally incalculable.

Friedan claimed that it was the housewife who was the “parasite,” but in fact it is the non-child-bearing-and-rearing woman who is a parasite, feeding upon the millennia of human development and evolution while doing her best to bring it to a complete stop.

Women who embrace Friedan do one of two things.  They (1) don’t have children, or (2) have children and then turn them over to the loving embrace of the state.  Choice (1) is voluntary biological extinction. Choice (2) is voluntary extinction of the human spirit—a surrender to fascism, the enormous boot stomping on the human face—forever.

]]> Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:06:39 CST Comment 3 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment3 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment3 Mr. Rogers, your views seem to smack of Darwinism. Just so everyone can understand you, can you state your views on origins? (Are you a creationist, or an evolutionist?)

]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:11:52 CST Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:13:41 CST Comment 4 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment4 http://erlc.com/article/some-common-sense-in-the-mommy-wars#comment4 Funny I should find this article just a couple of days after stepping off the supervisory track at work. I make good enough money and my ego doesn’t need the title anymore. We’ve had the child (my first cousin once removed) for 8 months now and he knows no other mother. He needs me.

I chose to be a mom and a wife above being an unrewarded, rarely thanked employee. I chose to let my husband pursue the promotional process. The peace I feel is tremendous. Should have done it years ago.

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