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Old 12-17-2008, 12:28 PM   #1
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I am flabbergasted by a story coming from Australia, where the local wireless telephone company refused to sell a high end cell phone to a stay at home mother simply because she did not have a regular job outside the home. To add insult to injury, the sales person recommended to this woman to go out there and find a “real job” if she wanted to qualify to purchase the phone.

I am upset, but I am not surprise. More and more every day, society looks at stay at home moms as second class citizens. They are ridiculed in TV series, they are criticized by the feminist movement and they are not appreciated in general.

How many of us would work 7 days a week, for 12 to 14 hours a day and not receive a single penny in return? How many of us would take a job with no health insurance, no paid vacation, no 1 hour lunch break and no paid sick days? I can assure you not many would do it, yet that is what stay at home moms do every single day. And what do they get in return from society? Nothing but criticism. The feminist movement called them submissive and unliberated, corporation tell us that they are not worthy of owning a cell phone and society tells them they are not successful because they don’t have careers in some big corporations.

Have we gotten to the point where we put more value on the material things than in the value of a family?

As a final note, several women groups are calling for a boycott on the telephone company. Hopefully enough people will join the campaign to make the company change its policy and start valuing what really matter: having a mom at home doing what thy do best, being a mom.

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Wow...SAHM's have the most difficult, underappreciated, and thankless job of any job on the earth.
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Old 12-17-2008, 12:35 PM   #3
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Check this article out... very cool and true.

What Is Mom Worth? Working Mom Vs. Stay At Home Mom
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it is pretty amazing how peoplelook at SAHMs like they don't actually work...lol I work harder than a lot of people I know
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Have we gotten to the point where we put more value on the material things than in the value of a family?
Heck no. We haven't just reached that point, we passed it ages ago.

This year it became clear that we've also passed the threshold where our society puts more value on the acquisition of material things than it does on the value of human life.

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I feel tha womans pain, even though my husbands income (in our state) is 50% mine, I still have to take him in and have him sign for things "because he is the one who works and brings home the check". It urks me to no end that I have to have my husband sign everything that involves andy form of credit, makes want a part time job just so I can feel grown up and get something on my own!
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I've been a SAHM for 12 years and have never had any problems like this. Both our names are on the mortgage and all accounts. We both have excellent credit and I've never had to get my husband to sign anything for me.
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That makes me livid!
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I have told DW a million time that I would not want to trade places. I love my kids and love being around them. But I dont have the patience for that 24/7

Thats why I always try and give her a break when I am home.
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I've been a SAHM for 12 years and have never had any problems like this. Both our names are on the mortgage and all accounts. We both have excellent credit and I've never had to get my husband to sign anything for me.
It's probably a bit different for you Trina, since you were in the "career" field before you were a SAHM. What about the SAHM's that were never "employed".
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