To Work or Not?

Question: Would Newsweek be publiciizing this study if McCain had chosen Romney as his running mate?

I suspect most people know the answer to that question.

Any or every women or man that can work has the right to choose to work or not work regardless of their so called privileged status. This article is full of inuendos and traps inferring some link to SARAH. If some unfortunate souls can't work or won't work (by choice) the more fortunate among us must seek every opportunity to help them in every way we can. Stop trying to harm SARAH with these simple minded articles.

Why should "affluent Moms" stay home and jettson their careers? You can do both - very well - if you try and plan your chosen field of work. No, I am not talking about flipping burgers - but, even there, I know Moms who work at night so the Dad is home. Their kids get the best of both worlds.

The Moms who went to college and graduated with a degree - then decide to sit at home and watch Barney all day - what are you going to do when little Johnny or Susie go to school - and don't need you at their beck and call. What about when they are off to college themselves? What are you going to do with the rest of your lives?

What about those who stay home - only to suffer the death of your spouse? Then what? You have no experience and no skills. What next? Welfare?

"Should affluent women work?"...should poor women stay home? should women be allowed to wear pants? wear revealing clothes?...eat in the same room as men?...choose their own partners/husbands? Gees!! Enough already! Why are we still dealing with these issues? Women should be able to pursue their dreams without having Neanderthals tell them what they should be doing.

"Should affluent women work?"...should poor women stay home? should women be allowed to wear pants? wear revealing clothes...eat in the same room as men? Gees!! Enough already! Why are we still dealing with these issues? Women should be able to pursue their dreams without having Neanderthals tell them what they should be doing.

Kids don't need a full time Mom. It isn't good for Mom or the Kids. I have worked as an elementary school counselor for years and have observed lots of children and their families. I have seen more problems caused by helicopter stay at home Moms who ochestrate every thing in their child's lives. One thing I do believe is that our technology is more of a negative than a positive. Kids needs to play outside and be creative not plugged into a TV or Computer or Video games. Limiting time spent on those activities and teaching good manners and self discipline would be a very positive step.

I think the whole point of this article was to promote a political agenda.

Way to be biased, Newsweek!

Its odd that folks are so ready, in this political season, to read support or criticism of their own current political debate points into a study that barely touches on issues which are themselves only peripherally relevant to the actual campaign. I'm afraid that it shows how emotion, rather than reason, guides so many of our putatively intellectual decisions and opinions.

If this study is so flawed, why print it? This is such an insult to working mothers like myself who have to work just to make ends meet (at least here in NJ - anywhere else in the country we would well off).

Given the choice, I think there are many moms who would like to stay home, but simply cannot afford to, and there are many who just don't want to. In either case, who the hell is this guy to judge anyone?

Just using the term "privileged" is condescending - it is insinuating that only people that are "well off" are prvilieged. I consider myself privileged because I have a great family that I go home to every night. just because I don't have a husband who makes the 7 figure salary that doesn't mean that we aren't of value.

Again - how insulting!

What a slap in the face to the wormen who work. It's time that the haves stop being so condecending to the have nots. These privileged women are no better and often worse than the working mother's. To critize Palin for who she is, what she has and will accomplish is pure garbarge. The critics need to take stock of themselves before casting stones at others.

Mothers of all incomes have worked outside the home for centuries. Why would it be such an issue now?. It is being made to sound as if the wealthy mothers are better than those who work. What a cop out and a slap in the face to all working mother's.

Sure wish I had the choice to stay at home with the kids or go to work and be celebrated either way.

This entire topic is so disgustingly hypocritical and sexist. Women for the past 30 or 40 years did not give a hoot about staying home and being a stay at home mother. They all wanted to be career women. It seems now 'fashionable' to stay at home and take care of family matters. Men do not have the luxury of 'choice' in these matters, women do. They can 'choose to stay home or work' and society applauds them either way, calling them 'heroes', and 'the true workers in America'. Give us a break. Men have had to carry the brunt of work inside and outside the home for a thousand years and all we get is 'male bashing'. Up your nose with a rubber hose, many can't handle the truth and this is it. It is time that men stop allowing women to have their cake and eat it too. Women give men ultimatums, ad naseum. What is good for the gander is good for the goose.