I would like to second Sandra L. Ebel’s comment that no one supports, speaks for or legislates for stay-at-home moms. I get nothing but dumbfounded looks when I tell people that I am a housewife (itself a more loaded term than the current “stay-at-home mom”). Occasionally I am asked, “Do you do anything else?” or, “What were you before?”, to which I am tempted to reply, “I was human, like you.”
I don’t know whether most parents put their children in day care or leave them with babysitters because they have to work or because they don’t feel like raising their kids, but I do know that plenty of children will go on living this way as long as our society makes it clear to young women that being married, keeping a home and raising a family are all a pathetic waste of time.
