[quote=FlyerInHi]CAr, you can’t have traditional housewife-husband relationships and more power for women.
If you demand power, men can just throw it back at you and demand to be house-husbands. That’s what the younger generations are thinking.
Workers are also wondering why parents get more slack at work than non-parents. Just not fair.
Society is changing.. now there’s have porn galore on the Net in 3D. Soon we’ll have virtual sex I’m sure.
Women desire the traditional family more. Men care a lot less about it and/or can delay it longer. I don’t think that women have a lot of bargaining power, unless they band together and form a union to restrict to supply of willing woman.
It’s just a question of supply and demand.[/quote]
I’ve never advocated for only allowing women to be SAHPs. We’ve know a few couples where the dad was the primary caretaker/SAHP and we even know some homeschooling families where the dads are the SAH/teachers. I think it’s awesome.
There are many, many women out there would want no part of being a SAHP, and there are some incredibly nurturing dads who would love nothing more than to stay home with the kids. There are families where the woman earns more than the man, so it totally makes sense, all else being equal, for her to continue working while he stays home.
But there is the reality of biology, too. Men don’t get pregnant, don’t have to go on bedrest if there are complications, don’t nurse (while UCGal was able to successfully pull off breastfeeding while working, most of the working women I know stopped BFing because it was just too much work/inconvenience), etc. Men aren’t as hormonally/physically/emotionally attached to their offspring as women are, in general. It’s just different.
As for parents being treated differently at work, I also agree. While working in the corporate world, I really resented having to do other people’s work because they had to leave at 4:45 p.m. to pick up their kids, or when they would often leave early for dr’s appointments, plays, etc. And some of these people were men, including those other managers who were making *more* than I was “because they had families to support.” And then there’s the issue of medical insurance, etc. No, it’s not fair, but I’m not sure there’s much we can do about it.
