Maggie's Farm

I've got a problem with the position he's taking. He doesn't talk about complimentary gender-roles; where the man earns the money, and the woman raises the kids and makes a home. Instead, he goes off in a hundred different directions; but he evades the central point.

This matters because women need to be told that being a wife and mother is important. Dropping kids off at day-care for a 12 hour visit is not the same thing as keeping them at home. Pre-K is very disorienting for children, and fails to create the long-term emotional bond that is supposed to exist between a mother and child. I find it interesting that most immigrant mothers never take their kids to day care if they can avoid it. They know from their culture that a woman's responsibility is to stay home with the kids, at least until they are in high school. They cook, clean, change diapers, all with joy in the satisfaction of being a good mother.

American women, on the other hand, have been taught to believe that motherhood is "old-fashioned" and went out with feminism. The first thing that I do to solve this problem is end all state and federal subsidies for child care. These subsidies promote single-motherhood and divorce by telling women that day care is "perfectly fine".

When women learn that having children is a privilege, and that it requires the financial resources in the form of a working partner, they will stop thinking of children as a side-job. And they will stop treating men as if they were disposable. This is why men are supposed to be paid more than women.
I wish he had the courage to say so.