“Stay-at-Home Moms Deserve Compensation”
carol | March 4, 2010
Cardinal: Stay-at-Home Moms Deserve Compensation, Incentives
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/mar/10030313.html
“The president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, Cardinal Ennio Antonelli, has highlighted the importance of a mother in the home caring for her family and has suggested economic compensation or tax reductions for those women who choose to do this…”
“Cardinal Antonelli also addressed the problem of the effects of a missing father figure on children, and cited statistics from the U.S. which he said illustrate a trend in many parts of the Western world to single parent families.”
“‘Ninety percent of homeless people, 72 percent of adolescent suicides, 60 percent of rapists and 85 percent of youth in jail grew up without a father present,’ the Cardinal said.”
“‘The traditional family,’ Cardinal Antonelli continued, ‘is even being considered oppressive injustice, and matrimony and maternity are viewed as things from which a woman must liberate herself.’”
“The Cardinal pointed out that while raising a family and seeking a career outside the home are not incompatible for women, support services and a ‘variety of opportunities in professional work: part-time work, telework, flexibility of hours and vacations’ are crucial to a successful outcome.”