[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Many women have little choice but to work AND raise a family...it is an economic necessity.

I'm one of those old fashioned (or maybe now it's ultra modern?) women who would much prefer the man to be the breadwinner and the woman to be the homemaker. When I was a child my mother had to work due to circumstances beyond her control and it seemed like all my friends had a mother at home. She left for work about 6:30am and I had to kill time until I could get into school. Other kids weren't even awake at that hour of the morning and I remember feeling very lonely on those dark winter mornings. I'd have loved to have had my Mum at home.

Even though it hasn't always been easy financially I have been able to be here for my girls thanks to circumstances which at the time I may not have thought were ideal but which worked out for the best in the end.

With unemployment being a problem wouldn't it be wonderful if people could earn enough so that women who wanted to stay home could do and there would be vacancies for people currently unemployed?