Militants - are they for real?

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Militants - are they for real?
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Tue, 04-14-2009 - 6:59pm

Someone on another board posted this link.
http://blogs.babycenter.com/celebrities/2009/04/12/dr-laura-says-all-moms-should-stay-at-home/?scid=momstodd_20090414_A:2&pe=2U8vYLf
It's about Dr. Laura saying that all women should be SAHMs until the child is at least 3 years old.

Whether we're talking about working or staying at home, I can't quite wrap my head around what is going on inside the brains of people that apply the phrase "all women should".

Do you think militants are actually serious, or just trying to get a rise out of others?

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Registered: 12-31-2008
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 7:37am

>>The percentage of parents who choose to SAH is always on the rise in a bad economy.<<


From what I've read, women, and men, were choosing to stay home before the economy went bad and overall, about half of the parents do stay home during some years of their child's youth.


>>I don't believe dual income families are particularly stressed.

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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 9:42am
Probably that they are worth less than the less than zero % that SAHM's are worth.
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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 9:43am

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I know this isn't directed toward me, but I have to admit that I've never really understood the housewife thing. I would go stark raving mad with boredom. A little cleaning and a little meal prep, and you're done for the day. After that you'd have to create/search for work for things to occupy your time. At least, that's what it seems like to me.

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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 11:35am
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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 11:38am

I agree that for many people that would be true boredom but I think that most of the people that do choose that life style do not feel that way.

"After that you'd have to create/search for work for things to occupy your time." Some people are very good at that. I think that those are the ones who do best with that lifestyle do have things volunteer work, hobbies etc that do fill up their time.

One of the reasons that I returned to work when my DD3 went to school full time was because I did feel bored being home alone all day every day. But I realize that not not every one feel the same way that I do about things and can totally understand others in my same situation would not have felt the boredom.

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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 12:08pm
Why do you consider a "bum" to have no worth?
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Registered: 01-18-2005
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 12:19pm

I don't.

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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 12:33pm

The study you cite was published in "International Economic Review," and the researcher is an economist. It is the only study I have seen so far to reach such a conclusion.

Here is one example of a study showing the opposite. http://cckm.ca/ChildCare/pdf/Broberg1997.pdf

However, it does conclude that quality of care does matter, so it may be that the children Bernal investigated had poor care. The study I posted also notes that previous studies have shown daycare to have either no effect or a positive effect on cognitive development, except in the US where results have been mixed. It may simply be that Swedish daycare is of a more consistent quality than US daycare. I also thought it nice that the study measured paternal involvement with the kids, btw.

Also, the researcher whom you cite, Bernal, did another study on single mothers which concluded something similar to what I just outlined above, namely:

"Their results indicate that the effect of child care use is negative, significant and rather sizeable. In particular an additional year of child-care use is associated with a reduction of 2.8 percent (.15 standard deviations) in child test scores. But this general finding masks important differences across types of child care, child age ranges, and maternal education. Indeed, only informal care used after the first year leads to significant reductions in child achievement. Formal care (i.e., center-based care, preschool) does not have any adverse effect on cognitive outcomes. In fact, their estimates imply that formal care has large positive effects on cognitive outcomes for children of poorly educated single mothers. Finally, Bernal and Keane also provide evidence of a strong link between test scores at ages 4, 5, and 6 and completed education." http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/people/bernal.html

Then she has a 3rd study which apparently also shows dire consequences of daycare, so I am not quite sure what to make of Bernal's research, and again, she is not a psychologist.

Just based on your personal experiences of the kids you have contact with in the community, does it really seem plausible to you that kids of WOHMs would suffer cognitively?




Edited 5/3/2009 12:55 pm ET by rollmops2009
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Sun, 05-03-2009 - 1:44pm

i agree that SAH is a personal choice not something that in the end is supposed to mean my kids have some greater edge.

 

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Registered: 12-31-2008
Sun, 05-03-2009 - 1:45pm

>>The study you cite was published in "International Economic Review," and the researcher is an economist.<<


The article

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