
E37: The Truth About Stay at Home vs Working Moms
The Lila Rose Show
The Importance of Nurture and Provider Roles in Marriage
Sally Kohn: "Gender roles are a construct. I would prefer to just say, if you're a mother, you have a certain responsibility" She says we should value mothers more and their unique role of being the mother of young children. Kohn: Nurture and provide both parents do both. Fathers should nurture their kids. Mothers should provide.
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I'm there and I'm part of their daily routine more substantially than child care is, you know, and child care is someone like family to us who's very, very trusted. So that's how I look at it. And I would recommend that because I do think children need quality time, but they also do need quantity time, especially very young children. I'm also, you know, I'm a nursing mom, so I'm there for my son to nurse him. And that's very important. I don't like pumping. I'm not saying pumping is wrong and sometimes pumping is necessary, but I think the bond of nursing your child, if you're able to do that, is really valuable and important for their bonding. Those are just a couple of things. So I do now. I know there's probably passionate opinions already bubbling up. People are having reactions to what I just said. Share your opinions. I'd love to hear. I'm not trying to say this is like an adamant creed for how you shall live, but I do think our kids need us, our kids need us. And it's our first responsibility. Okay. Next point, nurture and provider roles are an ideal in marriage. This is controversial because our society today says there's no gender roles. There shouldn't be gender roles. Gender roles are a construct. And yeah, in that language, the idea of gender role, I think is a very modern concept. I would prefer to just say, if you're a mother, you have a certain responsibility. If you're a father, you have a certain responsibility. So I think that's a little better than saying if you're a woman, then you have a certain role to play. Well, it has to do with more specificity about your being a woman. If you are a mother specifically, yes, you have a role to play. So that's where gender roles is a little wonky because not all women are mothers and it doesn't really get the specificity that I think this topic needs and deserves. So in a marriage where you have children, nurture provider roles are very valuable. What do I mean by that? Nurture and provide both parents do both. Fathers should nurture their kids. Mothers should provide. But specifically for mothers of young children, the mother being available for children. And being there to nurture that child and being free to do that and not have to leave to go work outside the home is an ideal that we should fight for as a society. So women can be there with their young children. And for her to be able to do that, it is ideal if she is married to the father of her children who is empowered to go out and provide for his family so that she's able to be there with her kids in the home. I do think that is an ideal. Now that doesn't mean she doesn't do any work outside the home. That doesn't mean the husband is then a workaholic who's not present to his family and kids and puts his work always says work comes first because I'm providing for you. So I'm always for work first. No, like that is an excuse by the way, some men use. It's the excuse their workaholic is by saying I'm doing it for you. Actually what they want from you more than your money is your presence and money is necessary for the necessities. But it's not necessary beyond that. Don't forget that, right? So we could do a whole episode on that. But I do think nurture provider roles are important and are an ideal in marriage. And as a society, we should value mothers more and their unique role of being the mother of young children. Remember, only women can justate. Only women can lactate. Only women can mother their very young children in the way that they're biologically and emotionally designed to. Final point. Thanks for staying with me through this episode because I know it's kind of like heady, all these ideas I'm spitting out. If I was doing a better job of this, I probably would use more concrete examples. So forgive me, but I just wanted to get this out there because it's been something I've been really thinking about and I've been on my heart a lot. Final point, if you're listening and you're a single or you're childless, you don't have children, maybe you're married or you're a single person, please do not think that you don't have a key role to play in our society. And by me saying, if you're a mother, motherhood is your most important work, yes, but if you're not a mother, you still have very important work to do.
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