Women Working in Society

In response to Hilary Rosen's comment  that Ann Romney was out of touch with most working moms and had "never worked a day in her life" Mitt Romney had this to say "I happen to believe that all moms are working moms, and if you have five sons, your work is never over." There is this idea going around that if you are a mom that chooses to stay at home to care for your children, then you are "settling" or "just a mom." It is perceived that these titles are worthless and that you are giving up your desires for your children. This is a bit bogus in the sense that those that have mothers at home to teach them and watch over their well-being that they will build better relationships with each other and be more fundamentally sound with the values that their parents feel are important to their family. My mother was not in the house a ton while growing up because she worked all day. One thing that she did to aid the lack of time she was there was that she would make sure her weekends included her children doing things with her. Not that it was time and activities based upon us, but that she would include us in the the things that she was apart of or with something that she needed to get done. I spend many hours with her at work late at night and serving people in need at the soup kitchen that she was in charge of. This was her way of bettering the situation for our lifestyle and needs.