Yes - Helvis - this is for YOU.
She has made fun of my staying home to raise my children. Others answered her question that a "job" will bring them personal fulfillment and purpose. What kind of bull is that?
Staying home and putting the FAMILY first has made THIS family very successful...thank you...YES - I take credit.
I drive the lib's kids to football and baseball while they are at WORK fulfilling THEMSELVES. I pick YOUR kids up when they miss the bus - this HAS happened to me. AND I pick your sick kids up from school when you are at a meeting that is too important to leave. Again, YOUR WELCOME.
Why do you dislike stay-at home MOMS liberals? Is is because you have no choice but to value your career above all else because your god Bill Clinton made adultery so mainstream in your world that you just have to steel yourself against that and pretend it doesn't matter WHEN it happens to you? (his sex life is not our business - but it was - and it DID influence idiots.)
2006-10-05 06:15:52 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
stephanie...no judging here about working moms - I HAD ONE and I love her! She was a nurse and worked 2 - 3 days a week.
2006-10-05 06:23:08 · update #1
HELLVIS! - I love kids and helping out when I can. HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU - My TAX BILL IS MOST LIKELY MORE THAN YOU MAKE - so do not worry about supporting my kids. We pay 100% of their expenses until they graduate college. You don't have to do A THING FOR THEM!
2006-10-05 06:26:10 · update #2
Jim W - lol
2006-10-05 06:30:03 · update #3
I was not mocking her.
2006-10-05 06:31:16 · update #4
HELVIS - you are such an angry young woman. You don't have to defend working moms from ME. It is a JOINT tax return so his income is MY income too...sorry you are too simple to get this. Where did you go to school?
I had to do some work for the Football Booster Club AND I'm BACK! But, alas, I am leaving again to got but a present for a party we are going to this weekend. BYE 4 NOW!
2006-10-05 06:44:58 · update #5
Leaving again to go BUY A PRESENT - I cannot type.
2006-10-05 06:46:04 · update #6
functiona...Not mocking adultery and NEVER wish it upon anyone. No one deserves that. Hillary did not deserve that.
2006-10-05 10:35:43 · update #7
wendy g - I have 1 home (15) and 2 in college that come home. I do a LOT of volunteer work and am involved in my community. The mayor wants me to run for alderman. I am plenty busy.
My kids are all great and very nice people.
My lib friends are my FRIENDS and we do not discuss politics that often.
2006-10-05 10:39:15 · update #8
You seem angry. Don't let people bother you. Being a mom is the hardest job in the world, and that is why many choose to work instead of doing it. That said, many women do not have the choice that you have. They must work to support their families and supplement the income. I myself have a career and run my own firm, but I only work while my kids are in school. I am there to drop them off and there to pick them up and stay home with them. Many are not able to do this and we should remember that before bashing them. Be the best you can be and let others be the best they can be. That is great that you help out working mothers. Keep it up, we need to help each other out as much as we can. Take care.
2006-10-05 06:22:11 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
RLP...Aren't your kids GROWN? From the looks of your 360 page, none of them are old enough to still be in the house, maybe in college, but not in the house, sooo...you're not exactly a stay at home "mom" anymore, right? Kids grow up, and then what? What are you doing now? I'm a "lib" and a feminist, but I plan to stay home with my children until they enter school, and then go back to teaching so I can be home when they are. As I've said before, there is nothing more important in life than to dedicate it to raising moral and COMPASSIONATE children, so, if that's what you've done, then I commend you. But get off it, your kids are grown...move on. And stop lumping all liberals together, most liberals and even feminist know that raising the next generation is the most important thing we as a nation can do.
And BTW...you have liberal friends? I'm guessing they don't know how much you secretly hate them. Oh, the duplicity.
2006-10-05 08:03:07 · answer #2 · answered by wendy g 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I am a working Liberal mom. Please allow me to address this point by point.
1. I am a liberal. I don't hate anyone. If you choose to stay at home, good for you. But I do take offense at you saying that I can't be a good parent or I choose career over my Family first. That could be less accurate.
2. I am a working single mom. I put my Family first in everything that is why I have a career. So my daughters can have a good life and learn by watching my example to be strong, independent, self-sufficient women.
3. I have a successful, healthy family, and a successful career. It may be hard to believe for some, but you can have both. I am blessed with 3 beautiful daughters, 12,10, and 4. My older daughters are active in extra curricular activities and I support them. They get good grades and are great kids.
4. Generalized statements are always inaccurate. To say that all liberals hate stay at home moms is as ridiculous as saying all that all stay at home moms hate liberals. Neither statement is true. You should take care not to make generalized statements. Clearly you have a disagreement with one individual, don't take it out on the rest of us.
5. I don't make other people drive my kids places so I can "fulfill myself". The statement is frankly ridiculous. Do you really think I would rather be in a meeting instead of with my children at a game? I would always rather be with my children, but we do not live in a perfect world and frankly I have no interest in teaching my children that this is a perfect world.
6. I work because I have to earn an income. I chose a career that I would be successful in, and sometimes that means that I have to make sacrifices. Unfortunately, it also means that sometimes my children feel that sacrifice because I can't be there for them. But that is life. And sometimes life requires sacrifice, I am ok teaching my children reality, and they will be better adults for it.
7. What is wrong with someone doing something for fulfillment and purpose? Surely you have hobbies or activities that you do for yourself that give you fulfillment and purpose, everyone does, what is wrong with that? Again, I want my children to know that even though I get great fulfillment and purpose being their mother, that it is important to have something for themselves.
8. Finally, although I have great respect for the accomplishments that Bill Clinton made, I certainly don't believe that he made adultery "mainstream" anymore than Newt Gingrich made adultery "mainstream" or anymore than Rush Limbaugh made drug abuse "mainstream". Let's again, be careful with the generalized statements. They who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, and frankly, scandal happens on both ends of the spectrum. I don't think any good parent, liberal or conservative, actually would base their career above their family, and they certainly wouldn’t do it because of something a politician did wrong. Let's be serious.
2006-10-05 07:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by jemmy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Staying home and raising a family is a choice some women make. It is not for everyone.
I think the problem arises when one tries to tout either choice as being more important than the other.
In truth, either choice contributes to society. Career women often seek higher education, and contribute to the furthering of human knowledge and progress.
Stay-at-home moms (many of them) put their efforts into their children, who then, hopefully, contribute to society in positive ways as well.
On that subject, I have to hope that your tirade on adultery and Bill Clinton is not what you pass on as logic and good sense to your children, or anybody else's children, while you are picking them up from school. Poisoning the minds of future generations is not what makes stay-at-home moms valuable. Just the opposite, in fact.
The fact that you stay at home does not protect you from wandering spouse syndrome, and it's cruel of you either to mock people whose spouses have strayed, or to wish it upon them. Likewise, attributing adultery to Bill Clinton's influence is just foolish. It didn't make it into the Ten Commandments (I'm guessing you're religious) because it was not a mainstream problem, even back then.
2006-10-05 06:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by functionary01 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I'm a liberal and I definitely think at least one parent should stay at home. My wife stays at home, not because she has too, it is a sacrifice we both made. If she worked we would be better financially but our daughter would be worse off emotionally. I wish I could be a stay at home dad, but in our current careers I can make more money than her (it wasn't always so, but definitely is now).
The question for you is do you think you should be forced to stay at home?
I hope and pray that your kids don't get infected with such blatant hatred and jealousy I read in your question. I also pray for the children of the women you are speaking against, it is they that will suffer from the lack of parental guidance.
2006-10-05 06:26:27 · answer #5 · answered by Fire_God_69 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am conservative and I dont "hate" stay at home moms, but I do think they complain a little too much about how hard their job is.
They have all day to do the things that working women only have a few hours in the evening to do.
EDIT - HEY RLP, should'nt you be washing some underwear or cooking lunch? Instead of playing on the computer. You are such a busy stay at home mom right???
2006-10-05 06:18:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Nice for you that your husband makes so much money that you don't have to work. Most working moms have to work either because the family needs two incomes to make ends meet or they are single moms.
As far as Bill Clinton "making adultery mainstream"-- that is absurd -- adultery has be around for as long as marriage has been around, Clinton did not popularize it -- that is bull!@#$. The idea that he influenced people to commit adultery is idiotic.
2006-10-05 06:35:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Look some people are happy being stay at home moms and that fulfills them and its enough.Some people need to work, there is with their life you seem to judge alot.Everyones life is different.nothing wrong with that either.
Alot of families have to have both parents working due to the cost of everything. For someone who says they are so happy
Maybe they would have wanted to be home with their kids but just couldnt, maybe you should think about that.
I dont dislike stay at home moms myself, I think you should do whatever makes you happy and whatever you have to do.
2006-10-05 06:20:49 · answer #8 · answered by stephaniemariewalksonwater 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I haven't seen this helvis person... but I must say good for you lady. Anyone saying that being a stay at home mom isn't a hard job has never been a mom before. Do you realize how demanding children are? how much attention they need?
Anyways, that's just sad... but you keep doing what you're doing. Your kids will be awesome :)
oh, there she is. She said she pays taxes so you can have kids? Wait... dont i pay taxes into people on WELFARE that, people like her support? what a weird concept she was trying to make there....
2006-10-05 06:20:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Looking at all the answers I agree with HELLVIS that women have choices. Maybe she thought she was being mocked?
Woman can work AND manage kids.You do.
And on behalf of everyone thank you for giving the kids a ride,ok?
2006-10-05 06:26:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋