Mothers to be in the Home President Ezra Taft Benson
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President
Kimball declared: Women are to take care of the family--the Lord has
so stated-to be an assistant to the husband, to work with him, but not
to earn the living, except in unusual circumstances. Men ought to be
men indeed and earn the living under normal circumstances...Too many
mothers work away from home to furnish sweaters and music lessons and
trips and fun for their children. Too many women spend their time in
socializing, in politicking, in public services when they should be
home to teach and train and receive and love their children into security...Mary,
you are to become a career woman in the greatest career on earth--that
of homemaker, wife, and mother. It was never intended by the Lord that
married women should compete with men in employment. They have a far
greater and more important service to render...The husband is expected
to support his family and only in an emergency should a wife secure
outside employment. Her place is in the home, to build the home into
a heaven of delight. Numerous divorces can be traced directly to the
day when the wife left the home and went out into the world into employment.
Two incomes raise the standard of living beyond its norm. Two spouses
working prevent the complete and proper home life, break into the family
prayers, create an independence which is not cooperative, causes distortion,
limits the family, and frustrates the children already born... I beg
of you, you who could and should be bearing and rearing a family: wives,
come home from the typewriter, the laundry, the nursing, come home from
the factory, the cafe. No career approaches in importance that of wife,
homemaker, mother--cooking meals, washing dishes, making beds for one's
precious husband and children. Come home, wives, to your husbands. Make
home a heaven for them. Come home, wives to your children, born and
unborn. Wrap the motherly cloak about you and, unembarrassed, help in
a major role to create the bodies for the immortal souls who anxiously
await. When you have fully complemented your husband in home life and
borne the children, growing up full of faith, integrity, responsibility,
and goodness, then you have achieved your accomplishment supreme, without
peer, and you will be the envy of all through time and eternity. I have
told tens of thousands of young folks that when they marry they should
not wait for children until they have finished their schooling and financial
desires...They should live together normally and let the children come...I
know of no scriptures where an authorization is given to young wives
to withhold their families and to go to work to put their husbands through
school. There are thousands of husbands who have worked their own way
through school and have reared families at the same time. (President Benson, Addresses given to Mothers and Fathers, Feb. 22, 1987; Oct. 3, 1987) |
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