Any possible sites discussing this idea (for hs debate)?

Question

Resolution for Housework Minimum Wage

1 Whereas: Housework is currently considered a non-market
2 commodity or invisible labor.
3 Whereas: A married family will spend an average of
4 28 hours a week on housework with an economic mean of
5 20,000 or more dollars a year.
6 Whereas: Many women do a majority of housework and as a result
7 are financially dependent on the income of a spouse.
8 Whereas: Unpaid cleaning, cooking, child or elder care, and other
9 types of housework are essential to the economic well-being
10 of the United States.
11 Let it be resolved by this student congress: That a minimum wage
12 for housework will be distributed monthly to qualifying U.S citizens
13 by the U.S. Department of Labor.

So basically i think it is trying to say that poor moms should get money?

Answer 1

The idea, as I understand it, was that people do these jobs - there are housekeepers, cooks, maids, daycare provider, nannies, etc. - and it was determined how much it would cost to have someone else do those jobs (say for a widower) and that has given a lot of people that idea that moms are underappreciated and undervalued.

Further, many families have two incomes to make ends meet, and then they come to realize that the second salary doesn't help all that much. It is often less than the primary salary and at least 1/2 of it goes toward making the 2 income family lifestyle possible (by paying for daycare, a second car using commuter gas and repairs, quick meals and lunches out, work clothes, etc.).

A minimum wage for housework would be brilliant and would be a god send to single mothers.

Peace!

Answer 2

You sound like a socialist. And maybe that's what you want to sound like.

How in the world would you measure something like that; everyone and their dog would be claiming they did twice as much housework as they do do. People would stop working in order to subsist on the Household minimum wage. This would DRASTICALLY decrease economic productivity and encourage people to live off of the work of others.

Maybe if a person cant afford to have kids and not work then they should stop having kids and start working instead of instisting that rich people pay for their lifestyle choices.

People make choices. Let them.

Paying people for cleaning their own house!!!!!
Your highschool can't think of anything more intellegent to debate!!!!