infinity ag said:
How are we defining "job"?
And do we have the same definition for dads? If motherhood is, is fatherhood a job too?
Job or not - now what? Does anyone expect to be paid for doing this job?
If so, who? the government? The spouse?
Mom is the shorthand that is easy to post on X. And I have no issues with the shorthand.
But what is loaded into the title is the old fashioned job of "homemaker". From a traditional standpoint, pretty well defined. And it comes with a lot of work for the Mom that does not sub out child care and homemaking to a third party. If you are doing it right, nurturing and teaching newborns until at least school aged while also maintaining order in the home, that's a full time job for someone. I'm not necessarily against subbing some or all of it out, but it is a full time job and some of the smartest most well educated women I know, including ones with degrees in aerospace engineering and other highly technical disciplines, left their industries once they had children and became full time "moms" and they are really good at it. We are beyond that stage of our lives, by my wife was one that also stayed out of the workforce to be a full time "moms" until our children were out of grade school. She was working a full time job.
Dad is a protector, provider, and fixer. Yes, it takes alot of work and some of that work is inside the home and includes raising children, especially the discipline and character development.
It's controversial to say and believe these things in the modern world. But I don't know any families in my orbit that practice these traditional roles in family and marriage that have families that are broken.
From a policymaking standpoint the nuclear family running primarily as designed where mothers and fathers are working in their strengths and helping serve each other in their weaknesses. Those families need the least amount of government and/or third party intervention in order to replicate healthy outcomes in each new generation created.
Our public policies used to reflect an acknowledgement of the nuclear family as the most desired outcome in society. Now we have policymakers openly mocking the notion of traditional families and many policymakers that consider themselves "conservative" that won't ever publically or openly express the truth about the traditional nuclear family and its benefit to society just from a bottom line financial standpoint.
The last 50 years has been bonkers in this regard.
