Argueing against a stay at home mother is like argueing against the sky being blue. It is a basic human concept. Like shelter, food, air and love. A mother is a caregiver and teacher to her children, she makes a house a home. Whatever satrisfaction a woman gets from going out into the world and having a career is misplaced. Her carreer will not follow her into the eternities, but her children will, and if she has failed to teach them gospel principles and care for them as she should have, her inactions and misplaced efforts wil be a burning scar on her soul.
There is no substitute for the Home. Its foundation is as ancient as the world, and its mission has been ordained of God from the earliest times. From Abraham sprang two ancient races represented in Isaac and Ishmael. The one built stable homes and prized its land as a divine inheritance. The other became children of the desert and as restless as its ever shifting sands upon which their tents were pitched. From that day to the present, the home has been the chief characteristic of superior over inferior nations. The home then is more than a habitation, it is an institution which stands for stability and love in individuals as well as in nations...
A Latter-Day Saint who has no ambition to establish a home and give it permanency has not a full conception of a sacred duty the gospel imposes upon him. It may be necessary at times to change our abode; but a change should never be made for light or trivial reasons, nor to satisfy a restless spirit. - Joseph F. Smith, JI 38:144; 145, March 1, 1903
Will my job matter in a thousand years? No
But my children will, and they will curse or glorify my name dependent on what I teach then here in this life and what efforts I put forth in regards to instructing them in heavenly things. If I neglect my duty in praying with them, or teachign them from the scriptures, or assisting them in bearing the priesthood or marrying a worthy priesthood bearer, their sins wil be
upon my own head.
My work at my Job will go the way of the earth, it will rot and turn to dust and is nothing in the eternal sense. My children will follow me into the eternities.
When two Latter-Day Saints are united together in marriage, promises are made to them concerning their offspring that reach from eternity to eternity. They are promised that they shall have the power and the right to govern and control and administer salvation and exaltation and glory to their offspring worlds without end. And what offspring they do not have here, undoubtedly there will be opportunities to have them hereafter. What else could man wish? A man and a woman in the other life, having celestial bodies, free from sickness and disease, glorified and beautified beyond description, standing in the midst of their posterity, governing and controling them, administering life, exaltation and glory, worlds without end. - Lorenzo Snow, DWN 54:481, March 13, 1897
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. - Plato