March 31, 2006

Punishing Educated Mothers

If the state subsidizes your education, does it have a say in how you use that education?

If you are a woman and want to stay home to raise your children, should you be punished?

Sharon Dijksma, a leading figure in the Dutch Labour Party, thinks so.

"A highly-educated woman who chooses to stay at home and not to work – that is destruction of capital,” she said in an interview last week. “If you receive the benefit of an expensive education at society’s expense, you should not be allowed to throw away that knowledge unpunished"

Talk about draining the life from a society.

There seems to be a blinder on the eyes of some feminists that they can not see the tremendous value and benefit to all society in mothers who devote their time to raising loving, secure and educated children.

Posted by Jill Fallon at March 31, 2006 03:32 PM | Permalink
Comments

This is revealing how blatant is the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) impulse to control aloof citizen’s behavior. Here, the MP wants to control those who taunt the government by not participating in behavior that would make them more subservient. Women not at work, and on the loose, having and bringing up children must be a manifold threat to the state. No salary to be confiscated, no day care child to indoctrinate, enjoying a traditional family, and perhaps even leisure time for religion. Few of these values are respected by the anti-west new age politicians. And I doubt this MP would dare challenge a Muslim who would batter his wife if she tried to work, nor challenge his wife having many babies.

Posted by: R2 at April 1, 2006 11:00 PM