Salt Lake Tribune guest columnist Natalie Brown writes about the value of stay-at-home parents and why they should be compensated for their invaluable work.
It’s time to pay stay-at-home parents because, it turns out, children are assets for America.I began to appreciate The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ emphasis on motherhood when I became a mother.
The uncomfortable reality I faced as a new mom and lawyer in Washington, D.C., was that I could only work my job as a law associate by paying other people to care for my child — people who were almost always minority women, sometimes with young children of their own. My career romance was built on racial, gender and class hierarchy as well as my own mother’s decision to forgo her career to raise me.
As much as I had loathed being defined by motherhood within the church, the church was the only institution in my life that prioritized parenting or implied that women should have adequate resources to parent without having to seek other paid labor. I was unexpectedly grateful and relieved. I also uncomfortably realized that I had bought into the notion that parental labor did not constitute important work or require skill and expertise because it was unpaid.
In America’s predominant viewpoint, parents are not workers. They do not deserve our support. Children are luxury choices even as the cost of rearing them has climbed so high due in part to our policies. Unsurprisingly, growing numbers of people are choosing to forgo parenthood in a society that does not value the work of parenting.and the issues like costs of living that drive them. In my area, school enrollments have dropped. Nearly every industry seems to have a labor shortage.
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