What happened to stay at home moms???

Question

I just want to know... why is it that raising kids doesnt seem to be enough for the world today?

I was not trying to make any one mad.
But it just seems to me that when we started going out to work and leaving the raising to strangers that some things changed. Kids have lost the idea of family values.. so when they rais there children they do what they know..
It just doesnt seem to be working out to well.
I am not trying to get any one mad. If I have then I am sorry.

Answer 1

it seems to me that moms don't care for their kids like moms used to. not that working moms don't care for their kids. i think that most people try to have lots of money. they don't understand that being happy doesn't mean having lots of money. it means family. some moms work because they have too. some moms work when their kids are in school because they don't want to be bored at home. when i have kids i don't want to work at all, but my husband wants me to work when they are in school. i think that the value of family has gone way down. i mean, look at the divorce rate now days.



after reading how everyone thinks that the cost of living has gone up so moms HAVE to work. it made me frustrated. yeah maybe the cost has gone up a little but i think that what has gone up more is what people think is necessary. 3 or 4 cars a family. eating out 4 or 5 times a week. huge houses. and the list goes on. yeah those things are nice to have but not a necessity. the cost of living goes up FOR YOU if you try to live like a king and a queen.

Answer 2

The economy just isn't in the right place for one income these days. People want more out of life than just getting by and some can't just get by without both parents going to work.
I'm not mad at your question but I beg to differ saying things haven't been working out.
All three of my children have went to daycare because I was a single mother going to school and working and they turned out with more independance than I see in those that didn't. And they loved it. They also did much better in school than some I've seen that stayed home until that time.
I guess everyones views on this will always be different and people will always see different results in every child.

Answer 3

I am a stay at home mom, I used to be a preschool teacher and then it hit me why am I takin care of other peoples children when i could be home nurtering and loving my own. So I quit, I love being home, of course it gets challenging some times but I wouldnt trade it for anything. My opionin is that this new generation of moms have embraced the fact that they dont only have to be moms. Some of us choose to stay at home and others choose to go out into the world, but that doesnt make either one of us less than a mom than the other. I babysit during the day and I get a income and I get to be with my children. So i guess im just lucky, some families need both incomes to strive in life.

Answer 4

Ugh, I'm a stay at home mom but I only have one child and when she starts kindergarten next year I'll be working because my husband always reminds me that I make no money so I'm pretty much worthless and I have no say in any thing. I think I was right in being a stay at home mom and I won't have any more kids because I refuse to put a baby in daycare... unless I was with some one else that perhaps acted better towards a woman staying home to take care of the kids. Stay at home moms don't get the credit they deserve and that is why some women won't do it. We make sacrifices and work 24/7 so that our children can be raised by us instead of a daycare provider who is taking care of several other kids at the same time.

Answer 5

i'm a stay at home mom with four kids and my husband is self-employed. Women have been duped by the so-called "women's lib" movement of the 70's. No offense to working moms. My family does just fine on one income. I think the definition of "necsessities" is relative. If you feel like you NEED to keep up with the Jones's then, YEP you can't possible live without 2 incomes. IMHO, if you're gonna have kids, stay home to raise 'em.

Answer 6

There's still a lot of them. They're mostly the single girls who get pregnant by their unsuspecting boyfriends, then sue for child support and go on welfare.

Edit: Too bad you don't like hearing the truth. The only reason there are any stay home moms is because they place the financial responsibilities on the father or someone else. Why doesn't anyone ask where all of the stay home fathers are? A woman would rather have the man out there earning the money instead of having him home raising the children. They alienate the father from their children's lives in this manner as well as doing other things which make it difficult for the man to be with the kids, and then they have the nerve to complain about the lack of time the father spends with the children. Drop dead you selfish, arrogant women.

Answer 7

The economy and lack of experienced work force enticed some to take jobs.
Then we endured 2 bad stock marked crashes, one the ‘80’s and then again in late ’90 has sent many more stay at home moms out into the work force.
It also forced many there who were to stay with their jobs to feed and clothe their children.

Answer 8

Im a stay at home mom, not too thrilled about it due to my crappy relationship. But I believe that child rearing is a group effort, the clsn or tribes effort.
Kids are having kids and then being forced against nature to raise them when they should be figuring out who they are. Thus those kids raising kids go asstray.

Answer 9

I'm a stay-at-home mom but I do want more in life...not just for me but for my kids too. When I return to work very soon, I'll be more productive, make more money, and be a little more happier! My children will see my happiness and get to experience things like dance class and baseball because I will have the money to pay for them! There is nothing wrong in wanting more out of life!!! And, why isn't this question asked towards the fathers too?! It's their children also!!!

Answer 10

I think each family needs to make the decision about what is best for their family and live their life according to those values. Children can be raised to be healthy and happy whether the mom stays home or not. I stayed home with mine for seven years and I wouldn't trade that for anything, but I felt the time was right to return to work and I have no regrets with that either.