Should stay at home moms deserve a salary from the government?

Answer 1

Absolutely! ANY parent who stays at home with a child and raises it - male or female - deserves some form of a salary, be it from private or public institutions. Raising a child, a human being, is hands down THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB. It's become politically incorrect to say this but it's the truth: when your child is in daycare, it is primarily being raised by someone else - and does not receive the unconditional love they not only need but deserve (and I say this as someone who used to work in daycare). Our children were not created to be born and put into these institutions to allow for others to care for them. This is also politically incorrect but it's the truth as well: if men were suddenly, due to some evolutionary fluke, the sex to carry and birth children, they would rise up and DEMAND compensation just for the pregnancy alone. We as mama's must unite on this issue. We work an average of 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. I have a toddler and I am going nonstop (except for an afternoon nap which I NEED to make it through the day and keep up w/this never-ending, demanding schedule) from 8am-10pm and at that, off and on throughout the night many nights when she wakes up. As I tell my husband - you could not afford my services if I decided to charge you for them. Few could. Them's the facts, jack!