Quote Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore View Post
The conservative position on stay at home moms always has been beyond bizarre. Conservatism: has there ever been an ideology that more worshiped money making and labor in the formal economy like ever ever in human history? Only industrialized country with no mandatory vacation policy. Overtime laws vastly undermined by the salaried exception (low level managers at restaurant CHAINS are counted as "management" not to mention most professional cubical dwellers). Nothing but work constantly and all the time (what you want 2 or 3 weeks vacation a year? you want a 40 hour week? why you are crazy ... ack a welfare mother is not working somewhere, oh noes!) and yet special exceptions for stay at home moms in their ideology for some reason (I'm not sure what, I think it has to do with woman's inferiority - since formal labor is what they REALLY respect). Is our labor policy really going to be determined mostly by people who don't work? They are no more experts to speak against mandatory vacation time or overtime laws, than childless poeple are the experts on say a law mandating cloth diapers!
I believe that the real position on stay at home moms, among lots of people, including some conservatives, is the nuclear family. I don't know of anyone who think women are inferior, in any regard.