The Educated Spouse Powerhouse

You are not wasting your education doing something you love. People who say that women are wasting their education on staying home and raising kids is horribly mistaken if the women’s passion in life is to raise children. Traditionally women are the ones to stay home and take care of children not because they are lesser than men but rather because they can better play that home-maker role than most men.
 

 The term “homemaker” makes one think of someone who just babysits buys groceries and cleans the house. This alone is important for a functional home but a homemaker can always be more than that.

If a women is to get an education and end up becoming a “house spouse” is she wasting her time, money and life? Not necessarily. A homemaker can be so much more than society's cardboard cutout of what they appear to be. Simply because someone does not get a salary, does not mean they are unreliable. In fact, I would trust a volunteer, for example, at a Sunday school more with kids than someone who is only willing to do the job to get paid. Why? Because they are passionate enough to take care of kids regardless of their “position”.

If people think that women who got educations should be reserved for paying jobs, then who do they expect to raise children? This just leaves us with uneducated people raising our youth. Would it not be better for society and the economy for an educated mother to be raising kids? The children will grow up in a nurturing and well-rounded environment with both mom and dad as educated role models for them. Now, since these children are a being raised so well, they are more likely to get an education themselves, especially with both parents being able to guide them through college, having both been through it.
 

Homemakers should be encouraged in their choice to use their education as a tool to raise their children, rather than be discouraged because their position doesn't pay. They are making a wise decision in better mentally equipping themselves before raising the very kids that will be our next generation of homemakers and paid workers.

These articles reminded me of the preacher that came to our school to speak Friday. He explained to us that pastors are in place to better equip the congregation to spread the gospel. So, if pastors get a bible education are they wasting their lives if they are equipping people to go on missions trips and not attending the trips themselves? No. They are educating, helping and encouraging others. This is something that would be extremely difficult without an education. Both the job of the pastor and what each person in the congregation chooses to do with his message is irreplaceable.

So, should women be discouraged from raising children and get jobs instead? Absolutely not! Women should have a choice. Educated mothers open a realm of possibilities for their children which will, in turn, be even more beneficial to the economy and the value of family. The mentality that women with educations should be bound to getting jobs rather than raising children because they should be “free” is the very idea that strips them of their freedom. HOUSE-SPOUSING WITHOUT SHAME! DESTROY THE ANTI-PATRIARCHY!