Should Women Stay Home and Raise Their Children?   
April 11, 2002

As a mother of five children, I count as one of the greatest blessings of my life the fact that I was able to stay at home with my children. Granted, it was not always easy. Four boys and one girl can be a big job.

When my children entered high school, the drug scene, the hard rock music and the sexual revolution took our community by storm. Parents were not aware of the dangers lurking everywhere. Suddenly we parents were confronted with a “new morality”, which was to either redefine or abolish the traditional family. This was being done in the interest of sexual freedom and social permissiveness.

I will never forget one of my children being placed in a class that promoted co-habitation before marriage. Even if parents objected, it did not matter. It was “cool”, and it was encouraged to reject your parents and create your own morals. Since God had been rejected also in our nation’s schools I was prohibited from announcing in the high school the Fellowship of Christians Athletes meetings held in our home on Monday nights.

How can the family defend itself when schools offer explicit sex education to stunned children and Hollywood endorses rebellion and self-gratification? How can a family defend itself when rock music offers a steady assault on the sensibilities and values of children and television glorifies infidelity, depravity, pornography, and violence? If mother and father are both working, who is minding the kids?

Many of my children’s friends fell prey to the sudden cultural hostilities and my own family struggled to survive. Yet I believe with all my heart if I had not been at home and if I had not been a praying mother, we would have lost the battle. The battle for the minds and hearts of my children was overwhelming, and it is even worst today. Many children are not making it and many parents are throwing in the towel.

An example of this, that I have taken from history and used often, took place in 1919 after the war in Europe. Marxists wanted to rid Hungary of the two forces that hindered their takeover. One was Western culture and the other; Christian religion. One of their first goals was to put sex education in the schools. This destroyed morals. The second goal was the promotion of feminism. If women were pushed out of the home and into the work force, they would leave their natural role. When women are no longer in the home the tried and true culture that upholds absolutes like The Ten Commandments are no longer passed down to the next generation.

Modern feminism began in the United States decades ago to enable women to realize their potential, or so they said. However, it has now mutated into a totally liberal movement that puts men down as inferior.

But all the above is not to say that it is wrong for women to work. Some must work to make ends meet and others want to work and that is acceptable. What I have attempted to convey is that children in the best or worst of conditions have a better chance at successful development with mothers at home.