Do you feel that women should stay barefoot and pregnant?

Question

Do you feel women have castrated men in the process of getting ahead in the work force. When women knew their place the divorce rate was low, now 60% of the marriages fail. June Cleaver was a great role model, but that's history.

Answer 1

As a stay at home wife and mother of five I think it is ridiculous that you compare me and all of the other stay at home mothers to June Cleaver. Speaking for myself I am hardly that uptight conventional stereotype that you perceive all stay at home moms to be.

As for women who choose to work and have a family, they are simply trying to help support their family and bring in extra income. Sometimes it isn't a matter of "getting ahead" as you put it. Nowadays, you almost have to have both parents working just to get by with the cost of living. It is ridiculous for you to make so many assumptions. I think that women should not have to throw away their ambitions either because they want to have children. For women to suddenly all quit their jobs and stay at home would be taking so many steps back in progress for women. We don't live in the Stone Ages like Fred and Wilma Flintstone...another fictitious couple where the wife stayed home and waited on her husband and child. Women have the right to have independence and ambition.

Marriages fail usually because one spouse cheats, often the husband. Infidelity has nothing to do with a wife choosing to work. I think if a marriage fails because a woman is working it is because the man feels threatened by his wife's new found sense of independence. Maybe she is earning more money or has a job with more prestige and he is jealous. That is not her fault. That is his own insecurity.

You are ignorant....

Answer 2

Barefoot and pregnant was fine when caves were homes. Women entered the workforce during WWII because so many men were overseas which, therefore,made the available workforce mostly female.

I personally think that the only Women who DON'T know their place are tied down to a home and taking care of kids and handing Big Daddy a beer the minute he walks in the door. I'm not knocking Stay At Home Moms....I've been one..however, men are not castrated because Women succeed in the business world but rather because they are competent and intelligent, possibly more so than most men after the same job, which is why the woman got it.

If a woman chooses to stay home that's fine, however, if she wishes to have a career and can compete with the sexist men then more power to her. If more women did so there wouldn't be so many women on welfare because they have no work experience to get a job to support the kids from Big Daddy.

Women working is not the main cause of the high divorce rate. Check the statistics .... society today puts pressure on both men and women.... however, society does not dictate that you stay together as our parents were told because divorce is a dirty word. I would venture that fidelity and midage crisis have more to do with today's divorce rate, not to mention the lack of morality with a lot of men and women.

Sometimes, no matter how hard you work at a marriage it just falls apart. How many highschool sweetheart marriages do you know that are still intact? It takes two to make a marriage work and nowadays it takes two incomes to keep a family in a decent home with food on the table and the bills paid each month.

Answer 3

The truth is that these days a woman cannot afford to stay home. Both partners have to work in order to have enough money to support the family. So no a woman shouldn't stay barefoot and pregnant, it would be nice though. Marriages fail these days because people fail to build strong relationships with each other and continue to work on their partnership, part of this may be due to the stress in today's society. What is the woman's place by your definition? Throughout history women have always ran the house and managed the family and they still do, but with less time to do it. The only difference is that we don't let men think they are in charge anymore.

Answer 4

Not at all. I'm actually baffled that this myth has spread so far. I'd actually very much like a wife who worked, extra income = easier lifestyle = less pressure on me to support us. Plus i believe everyone should pull their own weight in some way. Whether this is raising the child(if any) of the marriage, having a part-time job and maintaining the household, or having a full time job, makes no difference. IMO i dont want kids till i'm like 40, when i have a buttload of savings and a house and decent car(i'm just out of college), so my wife/girlfriend would probably work. Plus most women i know find working more rewarding, because doing housework gets tedious after a while. Edit: Oh jesus Gold Digger is back. Dere be a storm comin boys!

Answer 5

If a woman wants to be a stay at home mom, and her and her husband financially can afford it, I say good for her. If a woman wants to have a career, that's fine too. Sounds like your blaming the reason for divorce solely on women, but men are just as much to blame. Marriage is a partnership, not the husband being the master of his home and the wife being his servant. I know if my wife and I could afford to, she would be a stay at home mom, but we can't afford it. And as far as the reason that the divorce rate is as high as it is, is because people want the easy way out, when times get tough, instead of standing up and trying to work through them, they instead would rather run. The term irreconsilable differences is a term that I absolutely hate, because to me those differences that people say that they can't reconsile, in most cases, they don't want to reconsile. If people would quit buying into the lies that our society teaches today, that it's all about me, and this me first mentality, the divorce rate wouldn't be as high as it is today. If husbands and wives would think of their spouses first, and their spouses feelings and needs before their own, I think that marriages would last ALOT longer than they do now.

Answer 6

No, a woman is to be the help meet not the help mate. No one likes another to try and control them and everyone is equal. A relationship is a 50/50 deal not 60/40. If a woman can cook, CLEAN UP AFTER HERSELF, dress, bear and feed children. There is no reason in this world that a man can't clean up behind themselves let alone help out with lifes situation that are brought to the family. I understand that you may work all day long. Women were not put here to be a mans' sex slave/maid. If you love, honor,cherish and respect her you have every right to get the same in return. Treat her like a lady not a toy/prize. EVERYONE HAS FEELINGS....... NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE!!!!

Answer 7

Hell No. i'm married with 2 children 3 and 10 months and I work a full time job just like my husband. Not because I have to but to prove that a womans place is not in the house

Answer 8

First of all, I know my place, and it's wherever I want it to be. Second, If the women were all like June Cleaver, the men would all have to be like Ward...now is that what you really want? Don't blame women for divorce, it takes two to tango!

Answer 9

Only if men work 20 hours per day seven days a week so they can afford to feed, clothe and school all of those children that come from the pregnancies.

Answer 10

no there is nothing wrong with a woman staying home and raising the children though. I dont believe it will ever be like the leave it to beaver days. June doesnt exsist anymore.