Mother is the first teacher, doctor, nurse…mother in many ways is a child’s first god. That is why the saying goes, “The hand that rocks the cradle, rules the world.”
I read an article recently in which a woman discussed having hired a wife which resulted in her legal career flourishing. By her own admission, she could not be a great attorney and a great mother at the same time. So she enlisted a part time caregiver for her children wherein she was no longer boggled down with the minutia of motherhood. School pickups, extra curricular activities, dinner, clothes shopping-she was free from these and other “time sapping chores” (her words not mine) because she had a proxy in her place to perform these tasks.
This episode is not an attack on the article’s author but it is a defense of motherhood and the need children have of mothers. Society has declined so much that we terribly devalue both. However, motherhood is a not a trivial responsibility that we can hire out without there being collateral impacts.
Children need their mothers because mothers are irreplaceable.
I wonder what a child’s perspective would be on mom making the choice to kill it at work instead of home and be relegated to a substitute or a series of substitutes. I appreciate what one commenter wrote:
“I sure wish kids were more loved and valued in society.”
You can read the article using this link:
https://medium.com/@chrismorgan_1657/i-hired-a-wife-and-my-career-took-off-16dc8ae481fe?source=linkShare-f5bc743471e-1566776564
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