Reply #34: It Should Be A Choice As In Other Jobs

[mntleo2]

I do not think the left would go nuts if they saw mothering and fathering as job choice. I do not think it means someone HAS to stay home and raise the kids, it merely says that you are working two jobs if you work outside the home as well. If you choose parenting as your primary job, this is worthy of support (tax breaks, social security, etc) as much as choosing to work for a company is all.

As for needing BOTH parents, yes this is a wonderful thing. But most poor mothers have been left high and dry by the fathers ~ this is WHY they have to turn to welfare. A great deal of these fathers have two families and/or as poor as the mother is, and/or are incarcerated (for drugs, child abuse and other issues).

Do you realize that less than 40% of single mothers even receive child support? And after raising those kids on nothing, even if child support is ordered and not paid, the father just rides out the waiting time and never has to pay if they can get by doing it until the child reaches 18 ~ and believe me a lot of them do. So, after spending every cent she earns on her children and having nothing left to save, a woman is left on the street ~ and believe me a great deal of the homeless are women over fifty who face age discrimination on the job as well as not having any social safety net, thanks to the mostly MEN who run this country. Meanwhile men can retire in comfort without any obligation, even to know their children much less help with their upbringing. What a man is able to do, a woman would be prosecuted for child neglect, and that is a fact.

I will agree having both a mother and a father is a good thing for a child, but marriage does not mean riding off into the sunset to live happily ever after. I am not trying to just blame men here, but lets face it far more men leave behind their obligations of child raising than women do. Not every woman in this country can marry a man who has a wonderful paid job with good benefits ~ and that is getting less and less of a possibility every day for men as well.

My 2 cents

Cat In Seattle