05-14-2009, 05:54 PM | #11 | |
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The LDS culture values motherhood above almost all else. It's considered one of the highest roles to which a woman can aspire. The demands of motherhood and career are very difficult to balance, as any working mother can attest. I think whatever cautions might be extended to women are an outgrowth of that value system, and not reflective of some troglodytic desire to keep women ignorant, barefoot, and pregnant. These conversations always seem to presuppose that a mother's education is only valuable (or vastly more valuable) in the workplace, and that staying home is some lesser choice that wastes it. I think that's no less destructive a message than the one you think is being sent.
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