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Um. I work eight to five, and then I come home and do most of the housework. I do this even though I have no children and would whether I were married or not.
Sorry, but the person who pointed out that unless the mother has a chauffeur's license, a degree from a professional cooking school, a CPA license, and a certification in early childhood education, she's an amateur. Perhaps a skilled amateur, as I hope I am in the cooking department, but an amateur nonetheless. I certainly wouldn't pretend to be anything else.
You know, if everything she does should have some kind of monetary compensation attached, then to take it to the logical end you should argue that her servicing her husband in bed and bearing his children would mean she was performing the duties of a high-class concubine. Just saying.
I think the school was perfectly within its rights to make the girls come to school that day or go with their fathers to work. Especially in that part of the country. Not everyone has the luxury of choosing to be a homemaker. For some women, it's still the only acceptable option.
