The world's most noble profession!
QOTD:
So many women aspire to satisfying other men's ambitions/corporations with their best talents and energy and then return home spent with little TLC left for husbands and children. I appreciate women who choose the very noble profession of stay at home mom. They truly make a difference in this world.
— Jeff Pearson
And yes, I know not every woman has that option. My heart grieves for those who would like to choose this most noble profession, but for a variety of valid reasons (often, in today's world, economic), cannot. I have a massive amount of respect for those women who do what needs to be done – even if that means working multiple jobs – to support their children / families.
But for each of them, there is at least another one – and very likely more than one – who could stay at home and be a full-time wife, mother, and homemaker, but chooses not to... perhaps for valid reasons, but just as likely because she has bought into what Chesterton referred to as "a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands."
I grieve for them, too, but in a very different way.
One more quote on this subject, this one by Chelsea Brauwn:
"Being a wife & mother may be the hardest job I've ever had but it is definitely the most rewarding job in the world.
"Mothers have the most important role in the world. We are responsible for raising our future! We are their encouragement, supporters, nurturers and the ones they should be able to go to when everyone else fails them. Their success is our success & their failures are our failures.
"Raising our own children and being a mother shouldn't seem like a burden, it is the greatest privilege anyone could be given. We get to watch all of our hard work grow into happy, successful people with the capability to accomplish all of their dreams, with the morals and values that we set.
"Behind every Pastor, Doctor, Lawyer and President is a mother who refused to give up on them. No one else can replace, fill or substitute the duty of a mother & I refuse to let anyone else do my job."