Having It All

How delightful to see the things you know come out in the research. Over 13 years of working with new mothers helping them get started breastfeeding their little ones, I have almost never seen a mother who wanted to leave her baby and go back to work. So, why do they? They've been lied to! All their lives they've been told that to be fulfilled, to have the good life, they had to have a career. They've been told that they could "have it all" by marrying, having a supercharged career and somehow fit their children into tiny increments of "quality time." I've had mother after mother say, "Why didn't someone tell me I'd feel like this?" when they consider leaving their babies, but they can't stop now. Since they've always been told that this is what women should do, they've bought a big house and nice cars that they have to have a two-paycheck family to support their lifestyle. They feel trapped - and they are.

This is what really gets me about feminism. Feminists say that women got no respect before feminism. Who knows? I know this, though, that women still get no respect for doing "women's work", but only if they become imitation men! It gives me hope that some young women are waking up to the truth and are daring to do what they want to do! Shockingly enough to the feminist establishment, that's stay home - nurture your children, help your husband, make your house a home - the most creative and rewarding position a woman can have. The rewards are eternal. I wouldn't trade for a million dollars!

H/T WorldNetDaily

The U.N. is United

Against us. That is, the U.S. It amazes me how so many liberals think that truth is the product of a popularity contest. The world doesn't like what we are doing, therefore we are wrong. I can't figure out if they really believe this stuff or if it's just a convenient way to attack the conservatives, but there is such a shock evident when we ignore the U.N. that I think they must really be serious. I think they need to grow up. Maybe a country disagrees with the war in Iraq because they were doing business with Iraq and we've taken out their customers!

It reminds me of a book I read in graduate school, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. It propounded "constructivism" - the idea that truth is the construct of the beliefs of the community of scientists. Dear ones, if every scientist on the face of the earth believes they will live forever, the market in tombstones will not change. Believing doesn't make it so. And... the right course of action for the freest country on earth shouldn't be submitted to a referendum of the tyrants.