History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: Ann Romney and raising children: [View all]Tumbulu
(6,268 posts)I keep ~90 ewes and have 65 lambs on the ground, just brought a ewe back from the vet hospital whose dead lamb I was unable to pull out myself, it took three vets to get it out, but these fine women did it and the ewe is recovering. All women vets now at the vet teaching hospital. My daughter went with me and she got to see them at work.
I grow heirloom wheat on my farm as well and market it.
I am a single mom.
I downsized my business and sold most everything I could sell (when she was a babe) so that I could care for her myself. And as I have mentioned above 10,000 times I believe that it is work and a honorable and important career to parent. It is a short lived one now-a-days with only one or two children, but still it is something that should be respected as very few people do it anymore (at least where I live).
Now that she is in school I am able to get way more done and my income has rebounded a bit.
I feel extremely lucky that I could do this. Most of the women around me have absolutely no choice and have to go back to work within 6 weeks of giving birth. And their partners do not have the option either.
The women that I know find this inhumane (to be forced back to work a mere 6 weeks after giving birth) and I am absolutely amazed and completely disappointed that people here appear to be dismissing the choice- the financially suicidal choice- of rearing children "do it yourself style".
I do not for one minute think that every parent should interrupt their career to parent if they do not want to. What I would like to see is an economy that allowed parents that want to make a home and take the job of parenting seriously - as seabeyond seems to have done- where this can be done.
I want to see the parent who stays at home get 50% of the social security that the spouse/partner being paid to work gets put into their account. I want the 'stay at home parent" to be supported emotionally and financially by society.