"Part and parcel of the feminist message has been 'a disdain of domesticity and a contempt for housewives'. The volume level of this hostility was particularly shrill and piercing in the early years of the women's movement. However, its echo still rings in our ears today.
Consequently, the profession of homemaking is not very popular these days. It has dropped very low on our society's chart of worthwhile contributions - if it even makes the list at all! Many women are reluctant to stay at home because of the lack of respect they receive from our culture. Homemaking is deemed a low-status job.. In fact, you get the feeling nowadays that doing anything outside of the home is more honorable than working in the home. Dorothy Patterson characterizes the current mindset in this way:
Much of the world would agree that being a housekeeper is acceptable as long as you are not caring for your own home; treating men with attentive devotion would also be right as long as the man is the boss in the office and not your husband; caring for children would even be deemed heroic service for which presidential awards could be given as long as the children are someone else's and not your own."
(taken from Feminine Appeal by Carolyn Mahaney)
Titus 2:3-5
the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teacher of good things - that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed.
Tonya
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Tell it like it is!!
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