Should women stay home and take care of the kids?

Question

Should women stay at home and take care of the kids, cook and clean?

Answer 1

It's a decision the couple should make together. If one person makes enough money to support the family than the other person could stay home and take care of the house and family instead of paying someone else to do it. I don't think it always has to be the woman, if she makes more money than the man can stay home. The kids would benifit from either parent.

Answer 2

I am a mom of three kids now and I have been home with my kids for the past 7 years or so. I did this because I wanted to be there when me sons took their first steps and said their first words. My husband was working and the situation worked out great.
Now my husband and I are switching positions. He is going to be staying home with the kids and I am going to be going back to work. The reason for this is because after being home for that long with the kids and not really doing anything else but being in and around the house it gets to be monotonous.
But to answer your question as to if women SHOULD stay home and take care of the kids, cook and clean, I would have to say NO!! It is not in the just the women's job to do this. It is up to both people in the relationship to chip in and help each other out. Leaving these tasks to just one person is a lot. If the women chooses to stay home and do this then so be it, but I think that if she wants to go out and work and him stay home then go for it.

Answer 3

Personally I think motherhood is the most rewarding and most difficult experience a woman will ever have. Why give that experience away to a stranger. Who teaches them morals? It only lasts a few years until they are in school for a big part of the day. The excuse that you can't live without working full time just doesn't add up either. Daycare and babysitting is soo expensive. Half or more of your paycheck is wasted there.

I worked for 2 of the 5 and a 1/2 years I've been a mom. I went back to work after I lost a baby very traumatically and needed the companionship of adults to keep myself from going over the edge. As a stay at home mom, I had little contact with other parents or adults. I now work part time 8 days of the month. My kids never realize I'm gone because it's night shift. It works because I have a little extra cash, but my kids don't go to a sitter at all.

Answer 4

leave it to beaver ended- the simple truth is that historically Christian families have been multinational with every one providing some contribution. The image your describing is a slice from the 1950's not the norm. The norm was the family had a business weather they were farmers grocers didn't matter the children were trained in the family trade husbands and wives would work on their own sections of the home which was also the farm and shop and only a few educated people really worked out side of the home. The blacksmith's forge was located in the back yard so if the women in the family were working in the garden or cooking food they were only a few feet away from the men in the blacksmith shop and children to young to work would be raised and educated by living grandparents aunts and uncles until they were old enough.

Answer 5

YES:

>> If both man and woman talk about it and agree on it.

>> If the couple can handle it financially

>> If the woman can handle staying home, then stay home

>> If the man will realize that his woman is not a slave and even though she is home taking care of the kids, cooking and cleaning; THAT SHE IS NOT A SLAVE and not think that he is the boss because he is the one that is working (FYI: she is working too). He must be able to help around the house and be able to fill in when she is tired.

>> IF the man will not get big-headed and treat his woman wrong.

>> If they both realize that each one still needs each other because house wife duties take alot of WORK!!!

>> If they both meet each others need just as before

If the above criterias cannot be met, then WOMEN forget it; go out and work, have your independence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 6

I personally wouldn't want to be a stay-at-home mom. I'd much rather take a .5 position at work, leaving me with lots of time at home, but also something to get me out of the house and something more that I can do for myself.

I think it's great if a woman chooses to stay home because that is what she wants to do, but it's not right if a man tells her she has to stay home because that is her place. Some women are very happy staying at home, and some women would much rather work than be at home. As long as the children are properly cared for, and there's no reason housework wouldn't get done if both the man and the woman pitched in.

Answer 7

during the first two world wars when women were forced to work in the factories while the men went to war was admittedly the turning point in our society....but now that we have so many advances and women are now allowed to vote and own property it is too late to put that cat back in the bag.....i think that the men should take a stronger hand in raising kids...that has always been the most detrimental to a family, the mans role in the family....most shirk their duty even when they are home, they are content to let the women do all the work.....well, guess what? cooking and cleaning is not hardwired into the female DNA....and it should tell you something that women have to do all this work simply because a man cant...if they cant then shouldnt that tell you that women are more suited to intellectual jobs than men? :)

Answer 8

If They Want 2..If She Want A Good And Happy Family!!And If She Wanna Take A Good Care Of Her Kids And Home!

Answer 9

Hi,
Staying home, taking care of the kids, cleaning and cooking is a fulltime job, and Xtra if she has to take care of a Man's needs. A woman should work if she wants to and if she does not want to because she wants to assume household responsibilities as her position & she will be alright financially then, that's what she should do.
It has to be solely her decision. So that she can live with herself.

Answer 10

HELL NO if the women WANT to stay home and do all of it or have to but it should be equal THE MAN IN THE HOUSE CAN BE A MAN AND CLEAN AND COOK just like we can