Archive for February, 2012
February 20th, 2012 | 
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I’m a guide, mentor, mother, nurturer, wife, and friend. I am a new woman in an ever changing new world. When life gives me lemons, I take those lemons and makes lemonade.
As a woman, I have the same goals in mind today as my mother did yesterday. I want just as much to raise and care for my children in a healthy home environment. The only difference between me and my mother is that she was born in 1932, a time of poverty. By the age of 12, she was at home raising her brothers and sisters instead of attending school.
My mother grew into a woman and took on the job of mother and wife. She never worked outside of the home until my father’s death in 1988. At this time she was forced back into the workforce with no education and little job experience. She returned to the factory that she had worked at before marriage until ill health required her to retire early. But she did what she had to do to survive.
Today, as women, we have worked our way into the right to vote, to fight for equal pay, and to break away from traditional roles. Some of this breakdown is good, but I think we might have taken it too far. No longer is today’s feminist concerned with equality. The feminist movement has made us one up on man. The abortion movement is such an example. The law allows a woman to take power over a joint decision by aborting a life made by both man and woman, and the man has no say over it. Yet the same feminists are demanding that fathers pay child support and alimony instead of teaching the single woman to financially support herself.
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