Unique contributions to society
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| Thu, 10-19-2006 - 4:12pm |
In another thread, the "unique" contributions of SAHM's were alluded to but it wasn't stated what they are. Let's play a game and find out what they are. First, pretend that as of tomorrow, all moms SAH and detail what will be missing from society then pretend that all moms go to work and detail what will be missing from society. I'm really curious as to what people think a world without SAHM's orWOHM's would look like.
If all the moms who SAH went to work then the library would move story hour to the evening and summer vacation bible school would be held in the evenings so that all kids can attend and not just the kids of SAHM's. Banks would likely shift their hours to later in the day and you'd see more 24 hour stores. I think there would be more home cooking style restaurants too. I think day care centers would improve because of increased demand.
If all moms who WOH suddenly SAH, you'd see fewer service industries around because moms could do things themselves instead of paying for them. The nursing shortage would be more of a shortage. We'd probably have a shortage of teachers too. There'd be fewer government services because there'd be less tax dollars to pay for them. I can't think of anything else right now.

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True... LOL
There are still many points of view, and I do enjoy the boards some...
But i think most will agree that there is not *one* way to do things...
Sigh. :)
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She only saw what she considered the "positives" of his personality: he insisted on marrying a virgin (!) and insisted on a SAHW.
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It doesn't take forever but it does take much talk and (for us at least) a drawing up of pro/con lists. There is one area where neither of us has greater talent, knowledge or interest advantage. And that is the raising of dd. Both of us are equally clueless (or equally well informed, to be optimistic)) and have quite literally the exact same goal of her well-being. So we talk and sometimes make pro/con lists and come to decisions that are as objective as we can make them.
Both of us work in jobs where group and pair decision making happens. When you make decisions at work as a group or in pairs, it's a skill you hone. Or (more likely) both of us have a personality type that both drew us to each other and drew us to jobs where "teamwork" actually gets written into the mission statement of the job. I know there are legal teams, and for all I know you work on one or have done so many times in the past. But perhaps the dynamic of a legal team involves less group decision making. Or maybe you have experience with group decision making but that's not how it works at home.
In any case, since the goal is shared, the decision making is simply a joint working out of what way we think is the best way to reach that goal. And this doesn't take forever at home just as it doesn't take forever at work.
Sahms do not have to contribute something "unique" to contribute to society. Wohms also do not contribute anything "unique" to society.
Does your dcp provider contribute something to society? Assuming you believe she does, why wouldn't a sahm who does the same thing be contributing?
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