LovingWife wrote:take a look at Proverbs 31. That wife was very hard working.
I disagree with your interpretation of Titus 2. My home and family is my primary focus. That doesn't mean I can't also work and contribute to our family income, as well as provide comfort to the families and children I care for at work.
I am already married, so unless you are suggesting I get a divorce and put my children up for adoption, your argument is mute.
My decision to work is between my husband and me. He supports me, and that is the only opinion that matters.
My children are not latch key children. They are happy, well adjusted children. My oldest is 15 and a straight A student in a Christian school. None of my children have adjustment problems of any sort.
A christian man wouldn't be listening to Tom Leykis because he encourages men to have sex with young women and discard them as garbage. How can you even read scripture and listen to Tom Leykis? That man is pure evil.
I don't listen to him that often. There isn't too many women out there that will work outside and keep up with the home, usually something is lacking.
Children coming home to an empty house is a problem in America. Sometimes children come home to an empty home until single mother mom gets off her second job.
I would say a husband working and a stay at home mom is the best for children and teenagers of all ages. Having two parents, or working two parents is second best. Third best is children living with their fathers in the event of divorce, as he is most likely to remarry and have complete discipline of the children, joint custody, and then the worst would be giving the children to the mother, as we all know 85% of criminals come form that arrangement!!!
You're decision to go to work for extra gain displaces some man who needs the income to not only support his own family in today's economy, but ex wives and children he never sees. While women's working in the economy has increased to its highest levels, male participation has fallen 10%. Which I am sure only aggravates and magnifies the problems in society. Not only that, but the large influx of women working has made working wages fall!!! As working women will work for way less than any married man could afford to work, thus forcing his wife to work outside the home. Real wages are behind 1970 wages!
Life is not a two way street. Men and women are not interchangeable.
The bible states that man was to work in the field due to his curse and woman was to have birth pangs in child bearing.
16Unto the woman he said,
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying,
Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
18Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;
19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
20And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
21Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
In a perfect world you wouldn't need to work outside the home.
If all you women left the economy right now, wages would rise, 95% of all men would be working and their sons, and their sons sons, remember idle hands are the devils handy work. There are 12 million unemployed, I'd venture to guess that 80% of those are men!!!