Raising Children is NO job

You think being a mother is a "job"? We can all be happy that those "welfare moms" that have more babies just to get a bigger check are now employed :-)

Being a mother may be a lot of work but is not a job. Of course if Obama embraces mothering as a job then unemployment numbers will fall immediately.



If you get a paycheck for the work you do then that is a job, therefore nannies are employed. Whether or not they are employed legally is another issue altogether.

Here's the problem with that reasoning. Mother's who work while their children are small take a hit on child care costs. If the family is a two parent family, like what is assumed to be the norm, then one parent staying home while the other works does provide an economic benefit to the family equivilent to the cost of child care plus other expenses associated with employment. Another economic benefit from one parent staying home with the kids is that food costs for the family can be reduced because the stay at home parent can invest time in preparing meals starting with the basic ingredients rather than purchasing semi-prepared and prepared meals.



I reject that definition of a job. I consider stay at home parents as being self employed. Their paycheck is the economic benefit they provide for their family.

It wouldn't be the first commonly recognized definition you rejected Since this started in the context of comments by government/political representatives, I think the definition to go with is the IRS' definition.

Mothering is hard work, but a job has a taxable salary

So, other people utilizing lazy thinking is your excuse for employing the same?

"So, other people utilizing lazy thinking is your excuse for employing the same?"

Not at all. Just trying to get both sides of the aisle to stop using generalizations as basis for their arguments. A little critical thinking goes a long way.

Hilary ROSEN is probably toast now in the campaign.

President Obama strongly disagreed with Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen’s controversial comment about Ann Romney, saying today that “there’s no tougher job than being a mom.”.... The president went a step further, suggesting candidates’ families should be off limits. “I don’t have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates,” he told KCRG.

abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obama-rejects-rosens-comments-on-ann-romney/

The hard-core fascistic liberal BASE of the democrat party HATE the idea of parental control, indeed ANY buttress between their doggerel idioms and impressionable children's minds.

Many families make the decision to forgo a second income after children begin to arrive. If they can manage without the extra income, well good for them. As for parenting being a full-time job, well, it is, at least for me. Yes, I work outside the home and have throughout my children's lives. I'm still mom, even while at work. Being home is the second shift. Juggling their activities, checkups, etc along with a job/career is no easy task, even with a spouse who is a full partner. It is rather exhausting.

I've known moms who stay home full-time with their young children. It's tough work. There's still plenty for a mom to do even when the children are in class. There are the checkups, activities, etc, as I noted before that can be accomplished without the stress of racing from work to school to the appointment. Plus there's the daily tasks that need to be accomplished to keep a family running as smoothly as possible.

I refuse to denigrate any woman who chooses family above career. It's a tough choice, either way. I've had my share of judgemental folks who've looked down their noses at me for working outside the home. As for Mrs. Romney, well, goodness, careers were not encouraged for women while she was being raised. I recall being a small child (1969) and being told that I wouldn't need a college education because I'd be raising children. Fast forward about 8 years & there's all this talk about having a career & doing it all (1977). It was rather confusing just for my generation. Why is anyone dogging her about her family's decision? Who did she harm with this choice?

And for the record, I am rather liberal in my views (and conservative in much of my behavior). I refuse to make sweeping generalizations about those with differing viewpoints.

"Wooeee!
lookie thar LR, more blather!"

All I see is confirmation of your idiocy.

Is that your only reflection on this weighty matter?

If you listen to the whole quote she was spot on. When has Romney had to worry about working and raising kids paying bills etc... It was easy for Romney with a staff of twenty.

Rosen is still a moron. Attacking the spouse or family of a candidate is a meaningless exercise in obnoxiousness. Additionally, it was a tactically moronic attack, potentially alienating stay-at-home parents. She should be marginalized if not fired.
That a canditate is classistly clueless is fair game. Spouses and family, at most, might reflect the candidates taste/choice/judgement.

Considering within a week Romney decreed that single mothers getting any federal assistance should have to also get a paying job to qualify, I daresay HE doesn't consider it work either.

Both are using women as a political tool. I know I'm paying attention to which candidates think my body public property and my mind too "feeble" to make decisions for myself and which candidates don't. Considering one party has a candidate that blundered into the morality of a woman's choice to remain a stay-at-home mother and the other party has been passing bills in multiple states that do amazing things like legislate all women into a state of constant pregnancy, proclaim that single mothers are abusing their children (by not being married), should stay with abusive men and maybe cook them better meals, etc... I'll take the blundering idiocy of a candidate that says being a stay-at-home mom isn't akin to having a job.