<r><FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>, 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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
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<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s><e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT> <br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s><e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT> <br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>Have we gotten to the point where we put more value on the material things than in the value of a family?<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
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<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT></r>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s><e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT> <br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s><e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT> <br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s><e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT> <br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>Have we gotten to the point where we put more value on the material things than in the value of a family?<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT><br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s><e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT> <br/>
<FONT font="Times New Roman"><s></s>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.<e></SIZE></e></SIZE><e>[/FONT]</e></FONT></r>
