Official's 'woman's place is in the home' creates uproar

[_Jersey Girl]

Yes, harm. Dishonest.

[_Dr. Shades]

Yes, harm. Dishonest.

What's dishonest about the way the article was written?

[_Jersey Girl]

Yes, harm. Dishonest.

What's dishonest about the way the article was written?

Maybe I should have said that the statements regarding his approach were contradictory.

[_harmony]

What's dishonest about the way the article was written?

Maybe I should have said that the statements regarding his approach were contradictory.

He's more than a little outside the mainstream, with a stay at home wife and 12 children.

Which statements do you mean?

[_Jersey Girl]

The cure for Mr. Smith is seeing what goes on in families that are different from his mold. My dad used to think like him, specifically about programs like head start. Then my sister and her four kids were left without a husband, and they had to move back in with my parents. Now she is going back to school and relying on programs like head start to help make this possible. The woman's place cannot always be in the home. It just can't be, even if you idealize it as being so.

For Pete sakes. He didn't say that the woman's place should always be in the home. This is what he said:

"I feel that wherever possible, mothers should be home with small children," Smith says at his dining room table.

[_Jersey Girl]

I am amazed by some of the responses on this thread. Are you guys dogging this guy simply because he is LDS?

The article references a study that indicates that 71% of all mothers in the US work for pay outside the home. Does that not shock anyone?

If you guys aren't disturbed by this, tell me...

if 71% of ALL mothers in the US work for pay outside of the home, who is caring for the children?

And if mothers shouldn't be home with their young children who in the hell should be home with them? Anyone?

Are you all forgetting the children?

[_Dwight Frye]

Are you all forgetting the children?

[_Jersey Girl]

Are you all forgetting the children?

Dwight,

Why did you copy that sentence without comment?

ETA: Sorry, I didn't notice the link.

[_The Dude]

I am amazed by some of the responses on this thread. Are you guys dogging this guy simply because he is LDS?

It sounds to me like he would like to use social engineering to limit the possibilities for women to get out of the home. I disagree with that position.

Or maybe he really, really cares about the US debt? ( but he can't bring himself to address the pentagon budget or entitlement programs, which are in fact the only thing worth talking about in regards to debt)

It doesn't matter to me that he's LDS.

[_Jersey Girl]

I am amazed by some of the responses on this thread. Are you guys dogging this guy simply because he is LDS?

It sounds to me like he would like to use social engineering to limit the possibilities for women to get out of the home. I disagree with that position.

Or maybe he really, really cares about the US debt? ( but he can't bring himself to address the pentagon budget or entitlement programs, which are in fact the only thing worth talking about in regards to debt)

It doesn't matter to me that he's LDS.

I see no mention of children coming from you.