Great news from Kuwait

herjihad wrote: Bismillah, What about loveless, cruel marriages and poverty?  Working often provides an outlet for women in situations like this. And financial relief for the family.

An "outlet", but it does not solve the problem... perhaps it accumulates it to have a more destructive impact on everyone at a later date. We should be aware of our responsibilities, fulfill them and be reminded of them from time to time.  

Bismillah,

I know a particular muslim lady from Egypt whose husband was so abusive mentally and phyiscally, besides chasing women and drinking, that she had to separate from him.  But the burden was too much.  She stayed at home doing nothing being in a deep depression.  If I had known sooner, I would have helped her even though she lived far away.  Her children were taken away from her because of the filth and neglect they lived in.

You say this is an exception?  I have seen many depressed and incapable stay-at-home moms.  If you have a loving marriage, poverty should be easier to bear.  What about loveless, cruel marriages and poverty?  Working often provides an outlet for women in situations like this. And financial relief for the family.

 Each situations is different.  It's so easy to stand up and proffer what society should be like when women and children are suffering daily difficulties.  Let's stop ignoring our community needs!  Let's help each person and family together.

Here we have the ability to stay home OR work, it's just that nowdays people have skewed values and believe they HAVE to have so much money.

Mind you, employers have skewed values too, because they insist that women cannot stay away too long after having children. And the women believe they cannot stay away too long, either, because everything moves so fast that the women don't want to stay away from work too long in case they got behind in their knowledge of what's going on.

Also, in a country like Australia, part of our wages get paid into a superannuation fund because there' little likelyhood we will be able to survive on the pension when we get old, assuming there IS a pension when we get old...  So anyway, if you are not working, your are not getting money put into your superannuation fund, unless you are lucky enough to have enough to be putting some in yourself while you are not working (VERY rare, I imagine).

Therefore, you are putting your finances in old age at risk if you do not just keep working and working...

See what I mean? Society is not set up for mothers, children and families. But hopefully things will change.  They will HAVE to, otherwise all the millions of old people we will have in our country soon will have no young people earning money and paying taxes to support them

Kim...

If women are more sensitive, then it's THEM who should be in power because they are able to better know what people want and need.

There have been women rulers in the past and they haven't been better than men rulers. They have also waged wars and have been as corrupt as man rulers. There is nothing in history to prove that women rulers will be better than men.