do you know any full time homemakers, was your mom one?.?

Answer 1

Yes, I do know many full time homemakers. However, I know very few lifetime full time homemakers. Many of today's better educated women are full time homemakers when their children are small; then they return to the workforce full or part-time when the children's needs are less. Only one of my daughters is currently a full time homemaker. One daughter and one daughter-in-law have part-time professional jobs which allow them to be home most of the week. Two daughters have full time professional jobs and use a combination of family and other child-care providers. I was a full time homemaker for only a few years. Most years I had a part time job which I could do from home, and later on a part time professional job with flexible hours. My mother, too, was a fulltime homemaker for only a few years. First she took a night shift job to supplement the family income; when she became widowed, she had no choice but to return to full time outside employment.

Answer 2

As evolution has taken many women into the corporate world, and transfered some men to be "home makers" I see no stigma in being one. Obviously, and for many reasons, working AT HOME or out of ones home is also a trend that continues to increase in our society.

"Homemaker" though, has also changed somewhat in its definition. The most obvious defining points would include taking care of the day to day "business" of keeping a well functioning environment.

60 years ago, and farther back, another 80 years, my grandmother was a FULL TIME "Homemaker." Her "Job" went far beyond just maintaining a clean house and child care however.

She helped operate a 100 acre farm, and could Plow fields as skillfully as my grandfather could, driving tractors and the like. She could create her own clothing, fix magnificent meals on a huge cast iron stove, with no "bells or whistles" as "features." AND the list could go on.

Certainly that was long enough ago to have been a bit more realistic, or maybe more "accepted" and "expected" was the thought in the mid 20th Century. She endured it, through her 92 years because SHE had chosen that life, and never complained, nor decided concretely to alter that existence. She raised 11 children, and one grandchild, "Me" with all the heart and will she had in her.

Admittedly "IT'S" a job I'd be hard pressed to do, even by todays standards. I suspect being a "Lion Tamer" might be easier for my gender.

So, I guess, with no offense at all, I say, "You Go Girl."

Steven Wolf
(The Rev.)

Answer 3

I am a full time homemaker but don't have children to look after and my mom wasn't one.

Answer 4

Yes, many. And I also saw a trend in my friends. In the 90's, there was a turnaround from the 80's. More of my friends were giving up working to raise their children. ANd they were having more than the proverbial 1.5 children of the 80's. I have a couple of friends with 5 children, more with 3 and 4. One income families were making it work.

Also, my mother was a homemaker until my youngest brother was out of high school.

Answer 5

Yes, my mother was a full-time homemaker a/k/a Domestic Engineer. She cleaned, cooked, baked, did all the laundry, sewed and some of the yard work. I have to work full-time (and a part-time job) so my house is not as clean as my mother's was but that is understandable.

Answer 6

my mom was one until I started grade 5 (i was the youngest)
I was one for 14 years . found a job when my youngest went into grade 3.

Answer 7

My mom was one when my sister and i were younger. she volunteered at our school a few times a week. but then after my dad died she had to work. so now she's a working woman rather than a mom:(