What do you think of women who call themselves homemakers?

Question

Women who dont work and have never really had a job irritate me because they are always bragging on themselves.
It may be because I have worked and raised 2 kids with no father. He had a fling and I ended up winging it on my own. It was not a choice unless of course I lived on welfare. Do these homemakers who do such a great job think women should go on welfare to stay at home with their kids? Is it that important?
Do you know anyone who is a homemaker and what do you think of them?

I started thinking about this after my company recently hired a "homemaker" to fill in gaps in our schedule. She never wants to come in when she is called on an as needed basis, and we end up working short. She makes more money than I do and my job class is full time.
I missed the 1st 10 minutes of my daughters high school graduation because she had an excuse. She laughs and says she is a homemaker making "fun money".

Answer 1

stay at home moms eat bon bons, watch oprah all day, drop off n pick up their brats, throw the laundry into the washing machine n call it a day. lol. i laugh like he11 when i hear their world revolves around their kids.

Answer 2

I think it's great if a woman wants to be a homemaker and finances allow that. I think it takes a certain committment and dedication to be with children all day long and manage a home. Some women do a great job and some do a medicore job, just like women who have careers - some are great at what they do, some are not.

It seems that you did a good job on your own... a lot more than a lot of people can say! But there are others that have been fortunate to have a go at the way things were "back in the day"... and that can be a good thing too.

No matter what isn't it amazing that most kids turn out to be good people? We all do what we can to ensure that. :-)

I have had the chance to be a stay at home mother and a working mom. They both have their good things and their challanges!

Answer 3

You sound very angry. Life works out differently for all of us. There are wonderful, sweet people who are homemakers and wonderful, sweet people who have to work. And, of course, there are nasty, mean homemakers and nasty, mean women who have to work! To lump people into category that they all brag on themselves, etc. is unfair.

Some women find themselves with men who insist that they stay home with the children, they may have mother-in-law pressures, they many have been left alone a lot as a child and were determined not to do the same to their own children (I know a little about this one). Some women work because they have no choice and some women work because they can't stand being at home with the kids!

Women who work and raise a family are very much admired by many people...homemakers, as well. It's the toughest job of all. Anybody with half a brain know how tough!

Be proud of what you have accomplished! I hope you can forgive the stay at home moms...they have their problems, too.

Answer 4

I kow a lot of homemaker, some are well educated but get married after graduate and stuck at home, hanging with gossiping neighbors turned themself into a woman whose world revovle around what to cook for the kids, who n who's husband is cheating and the soaps drama. But mind you some of them stay at home to make sure their kids don't turn out to be a criminals(apparently they think their children will turn bad the moment they leave their house).
Everyone have the right to choose whether be a housewives or a full time working mother.

Answer 5

ive known a few...they just see the world differently from what i do i guess, i dont see it as mens work womens work..i think if you want to survive everyone should know how to fold up the laundry and if i had a bad day then maybe you can cook dinner tonight..i am trying to teach my kids this their dad is deployed alot so its normally just us...they surprise me sometimes and its nice to come home to freshly folded laundry..sometimes i wish i could make all the award ceremonies at school or go help out in a class room..but its a choice..do you have everything you need for school and some extra or do i stay home and scrub your room everyday..for us..its better if i work..i have to have something outside this house..to be a better mom i need to have my own things going interact with people..and as for welfare..it is just a circle..i know so many who have had kids born into this and they are now at 16 repeating that cycle..why? when you could be so much more

Answer 6

A woman should only be a homemaker if:

a) It will truly make her happy.
b) Her husband makes enough to support the entire family.

However, there are severe risks to not having money of one's own. I recommend reading "The Feminine Mistake" for more on this.

As for "Do these homemakers who do such a great job think women should go on welfare to stay at home with their kids?" I think the only woman who would ever say such a thing is Dr. Laura.

I could never be a homemaker. I hate cleaning, I don't know much about cooking, and I don't even want to get married.

Answer 7

Are you mad about their choice?
It sounds like it.
You chose not to be a homemaker, so be proud of what you did and how much you've accomplished.
I really believe that homemaking is a choice just as is working in an office, as an engineer, school teacher, etc.
Good luck

Answer 8

My sister graduated from Harvard, magna *** laude with a Phi Beta Kappa key.... Then she got married and never held a professional job. I suppose she was fine with it, but I always thought what a waste it was of such a good mind.

Answer 9

If you made the choice yourself as a woman, I see nothing wrong with that because that in itself is a career choice.
I do not think that it makes you better or worse than someone who chooses or must work outside of the house to make ends meet.

Answer 10

"What do you think of women who call themselves homemakers"?

What I think is that they’re simply hiding behind their children and their husbands while calling it something else. “Homemaker”?? C’mon, give me a break. The home can survive with out someone fussing over it 8 hours a day, 7 days a week. And the children can definitely do without the over-protection.

Answer 11

my wife is and i couldn't be happier, though it didn't start out that way, circumstances , things happen, but it agrees with us both. it could be that they feel like they have nothing else in their life. please don't waste your precious life feeling negative emotions over something so trivial, or anything for that matter. love life, and live to love......enjoy