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: 02-06-2009
Mon, 05-04-2009 - 8:29am


In my original post, I used the term to mean childfree. This is because the question came up wrt childfree people on a board I lurk.


I suppose a woman with grown children might also be called a housewife. To be honest I haven't given a great deal of thought to the precise meaning of that term.


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Registered: 02-07-2009
Mon, 05-04-2009 - 8:45am

When I first left the workforce to SAH, housewife or homemaker was the term used for a wife who did not work.. It did not matter if there were children or not.

During the time I was at home SAHM started to be used to describe a mother not in the work force. It became more and more common as the years went by.

I think at this point most people use SAHM to describe a mother with children in the home who do not work and housewife/homemaker to describe a woman who does not work who does not have children in the home (whether she has child at all or whether they are all grown).

At my stage of life (all adult children) I only refer to myself as a WOHM for this board. IRL I consider myself a working woman. If I were to leave the workforce I would consider myself a homemaker and not a SAHM.

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Mon, 05-04-2009 - 8:56am

SAHM and WOHM are only pieces of language i see on message boards.

 

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Mon, 05-04-2009 - 9:11am

You sound like a really good mom, I'm happy for Liza.


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Mon, 05-04-2009 - 11:15am

"...children of college educated parents are far more likely to finish high school and continue on to college. The same research also found that daughters of college educated mothers are considerably less likely to become unmarried teen parents. "

Huh. Wonder where my DD will fall...I was a unwed mother when she was born at 20 (got preg at 19), but I was in college and graduated with my BSB when she was 2. I fail to see the comparison between unwed teen parents and college educated parents. Seems to be apples and oranges to me.

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Mon, 05-04-2009 - 11:31am

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Yes, I understand that you don't think that your births were medical trauma, although I'm guessing that the medical community would define major surgery as medical trauma regardless.

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Mon, 05-04-2009 - 11:39am

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I was using natural in regards to childbirth that I'm aware, which would mean to naturally give birth, without or very little

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Mon, 05-04-2009 - 11:40am

Why do you feel that they aren't medical traumas?

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