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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So, now back to my question that you haven't answered.
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In my opinion and my experience that is what I looked for in a good quality daycare.
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Legitimately curious.
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I can understand that to a certain extent as we ramped our children into school.
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There are still to many variables and unknowns.
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Most people, in my experience
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True, but that wasn't your question.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but aren't you also a sahm who used daycare?
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<< If I found a great pre-school program in our area I can imagine him starting at age 3 for a few hours a few days a week. I was 4, one month short of 5, when I started full-day kindergarten, although we did have 1 1/2 hour break for lunch (at home). And I did fine. I think I started mornings in a day care of sorts when I was 3 and I did fine too, although apparently I had a problem biting the other kids. I did grow out of it after Miss Wheeler bit me back, so the story goes. . >>
The majority of the school districts around here have preschool programs from 3.5 years of age.
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Many districts in my area are expanding their ECE programs because they see the importance of ECE development.
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I would think
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