No society can survive without children. The rhetoric that holds children to be our greatest national resource is true, but the re...ality is that we do little to demonstrate any conviction of its truth. Becoming a parent and being a "good," concerned, and attentive parent may be the most significant contribution any adult can make to our society--and ultimately to the gross national product and to the future of the society.... Surely, it is time to acknowledge the contribution parents make in bearing, caring for, and rearing future generations of citizens, workers, and parents--even if they share personally in the rewards of having children. Surely, parenting is a life cycle stage warranting support at its inception and as an ongoing process by a society that needs and wants children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... much less time should be given to school, and much more to domestic employments, especially in the wealthier classes. A little... girl may begin, at five or six years of age, to assist her mother: and, if properly trained, by the time she is ten, she can render essential aid. From this time, until she is fourteen or fifteen, it should be the principal object of her education to secure a strong and healthy constitution, and a thorough practical knowledge of all kinds of domestic employments. During this period, though some attention ought to be paid to intellectual culture, it ought to be made altogether secondary in importance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the physical and domestic education of daughters should occupy the principal attention of mothers, in childhood: and the stimu...lation of the intellect should be very much reduced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic c...onqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mighty few young black women are doin' domestic work. And I'm glad. That's why I want my kids to go to school. This one lady told ...me, "All you people are gettin' like that." I said, "I'm glad." There's no more gettin' on their knees.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low!... The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles. Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men perceive that equating love and domestic work is a trap. They fear that to get involved with housework would send them hurtlin...g into the bottomless pit of self-sacrifice that is women's current caring roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »