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I agree with you here, but I’ve been shouted down before for saying that homemaking is valuable work. Perhaps I should not have couched my comment, but the refl

• rayiner 2y ago
  No, I would do the same thing in your situation. I apologize if it came across as critical to you. I was trying to criticize the situation. My wife’s a lawyer, and she did a trial nine months pregnant with our second. When we had our third, something clicked and she wanted nothing more than to stay home with him. My mom has a master’s degree in chemistry back in old country, then stayed home to raise us when we were young, then after we were teenagers was very successful selling furniture. Many women in my wife’s extended family, where most folks aren’t college graduates and don’t have exciting career options, would love to be able to quit their jobs. If you’re trying to do everything you can’t do anything. It shouldn’t be taboo to recognize that raising children is a socially valuable function. Nor should it be taboo to recognize that society’s devaluation of that social rule particularly hurts women.