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Most parents have a deep emotional bond with the children, especially when they they are vulnerable babies. It's probably the strongest emotional bond humans ca

by mafribe 10y ago

Most parents have a deep emotional bond with the children, especially when they they are vulnerable babies. It's probably the strongest emotional bond humans can form. Due to this bond, the relationship between children and their parents is completely different than the relationship between a corporation and its employees. There are no performance goals, there are no annual reviews, there is no stack ranking. Most parents would die for their children, who would die for their boss? If the relationship between you and your children is like that between you and your employer, you are probably not doing it right ... You can also look at this from a power angle: what do feminist typically campaign for? Do they typically campaign for mandatory patertal leave to match or exceed maternal leave? This would be the case if looking after one's children was such a drag. Nope, they are typically quite happy with women getting the biggest chunk of parental leave, but they want society to view maternal leave as work on par with working in a company.

fit2rule 10y ago
Am Dad, can confirm: kids are very, very much work. Hard work. Very, very difficult at times. But the rewards are like no other. As a parent, I have a disinclination to consider parenting 'work', as in 'I should get paid for this because it sucks', because I don't think that all things that suck should be paid for, in general. Life does suck. Deal with it. And the suckiness of parenting is in no way at all the same level of suck as, say, having to do a Timesheet every single day and accounting for every 6 minutes of effort in order to get paid a pittance, and so on. Because you can't say: this human being is costing me $__ amount. To incentivize - or even, associate - parenting work as an under-privileged system of unpaid labor is to allow the conditions of human slavery to slip ever slightly more through the door. It speaks much of any -ism that claims that child-rearing isn't one of the truly greatest privileges for any living being, sentinent or otherwise, to experience.

by mafribe 10y ago

fit2rule 10y ago

Am Dad, can confirm: kids are very, very much work. Hard work. Very, very difficult at times. But the rewards are like no other. As a parent, I have a disinclination to consider parenting 'work', as in 'I should get paid for this because it sucks', because I don't think that all things that suck should be paid for, in general. Life does suck. Deal with it. And the suckiness of parenting is in no way at all the same level of suck as, say, having to do a Timesheet every single day and accounting for every 6 minutes of effort in order to get paid a pittance, and so on. Because you can't say: this human being is costing me $__ amount. To incentivize - or even, associate - parenting work as an under-privileged system of unpaid labor is to allow the conditions of human slavery to slip ever slightly more through the door. It speaks much of any -ism that claims that child-rearing isn't one of the truly greatest privileges for any living being, sentinent or otherwise, to experience.