From almost every medium, including the TV, radio, magazines etc, women are being encouraged even at times to being bullied back into the work force. As governments try and make the work place 'children friendly', do we really want our children to be raised in our place of work? Or in child care facilities by strangers?
The feminist agenda would have all women believe that to stay at home means you have negated your calling in life by living as a doormat to your husband and family. These same feminists would have all women believe that 'they can have it all' but let us take a closer look at these feminists. Many who are either editors, reporters or authors employ mainly women to do THEIR housework, it would be beneath them to do their own cleaning and cooking, they also either send their children off to wealthy boarding schools or employ nannies to take care of their little one's. These same feminists then make it almost a crime to be stay at home Moms. Almost as if they believe that stay at home moms sit and watch soap opera's all day and do no work, if so what a contemptuous attitude to have towards hard working moms who are busy raising their children and helping their husbands.
So as they sit and scribble in their editorials that women can become 'superwoman' who is looking after THEIR children? It is very easy for these feminists who may earn in the region of six figured sums to insist that ALL women must work outside the home so as to be considered productive to society. Who made these rules? Sadly many mom's buy into this theory by supporting these magazines, buying the feminists books and watching the TV shows which denigrate stay at home moms. As Mother Teresa once said, "Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world." Have working moms become too busy for their families?
The big lie is that for many women who do go out to work, they are not earning six figured sums nor do they have secretaries or cleaners to help them live a comfortable lifestyle. The truth is, that many working moms are employed in factories or shopping centres, where the money is deplorable and the job itself is mundane and boring and that is without counting the stress factor.
Then unlike the famous feminists these hard working moms then go home to face more work, a house to clean, meals to cook, laundry to be done and the list goes on, many are lucky to be in bed by midnight. When you add the stress factor of dealing with irritable children, a tired husband the situation can become intolerable for all. If this is the reality then why do the feminists not report on that particular fact, or don't they care about the women they are supposedly liberating? As the late Pope John Paul II said, "To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others." Yet according to the feminist 'bible' the opposite is the case, it is 'Me, Myself and I first' and the family a poor second, who as Catholics do we listen to?
At times some moms do have to work and are able to incorporate a happy work environment and a happy and content home life, but these women are in the minority. Many working moms are tired, they are on their feet for up to 16-18 hours a day both at work and at home, is it any wonder that many working moms feel unappreciated? Which invariably leads to discontentment, but rather than leave their place of work before the rot sets in, oftentimes it is too late and it is the marriage that suffers when working moms through sheer frustration give up on their marriages.
When we look at marriage we know it to be one of the Sacraments of the Church, but where does the Catholic Church say that a being a working mom is a Sacrament? This is why women need to be especially vigilant in regards to their marriage and protect their Holy Vows over and above what the 'worldly' feminists are trying to propagate through their 'superwoman theory'. Once again Pope John Paul II said, "Motherhood is sometimes presented as something backward or as a limitation of a woman's freedom, thus distorting its true nature and dignity. Children are presented not as what they are-a great gift of God-but rather as something to be defended against."
It is the woman who is the nurturer in the family and it is the woman who is also the helpmate to her husband, what she cannot be is all things to all people it is physically and emotionally impossible and also exhaustive, is it any wonder that the divorce rate has sky rocketed over the generations?
In order for women to truly feel empowered they need to embrace who they are and not be force fed by those who dictate who they should be. In reality it is the mother who is the heart of the home, and the father is the head of the home and the children of the marital union are blessings from a loving God. This is how God ordained the family unit, unfortunately for the feminists God didn't consult them when defining the Holy Sacrament of Marriage through the Catholic Church.
In the end do moms heed the voice of the feminist movement over and above that of God? Or do they follow that most Holy example the marriage of Joseph and Mary?
Choose well for the wellbeing of your family is at stake.
Peace of Christ to ALL
Copyright © 2006 Marie Smith. All rights reserved.
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