I hate to depress people, but there’s an entire movement of this shîte. I don’t read it because I’m watching my blood pressure.

Becoming a SAHM. OK, not my thing but if both agree and are ok with it, whatever. But teaching a young girl to "depend on and serve" her husband should be considered child abuse.

Fast forward 20 years and this kid now has multiple tattoos and piercings and a career in professional kickboxing, is happily single and childless, and only talks to her mother at Christmas lunch.

Be a housewife if it makes you happy and let other women do what makes them happy. But don't parade your choice as if it's some morally superior path! There are lots of housewives who have been abandoned and now make use of benefits they never contributed to because they didn't have a job. Children from SAHM are not happier or more well-adjusted than children with working parents. So make your choice, but let others make their choice.

This infuriates me, because it’s pretty much what my “greatest generation” parents tried to do to me, their youngest child and only daughter. They were trying to turn me into their caretaker in their old age. Even though out of all five of their children, the baby and only girl was the only one with the grades to get into any college I wanted, they refused to send me to college. W T Actual F? No f*****g way was I going to let that happen, so once I hit 18 I left, went 100% NC, and never looked back. That was in January of 1979. I have had my own life ever since, and have zero regrets. I now have a Masters Degree and am married and have had a pretty good life without them. They’re both dead now, and their deaths did not affect me in the least. I honestly did not care about them—-or should I say I cared about them even less than they cared about me. So I say to all parents, do NOT ever limit any of your children’s options for their future! Let them be what they’re going to be, even if it doesn’t fit what you want them to be, you are not them, and never will be. I actually hope this woman’s daughter turns out to be the exact opposite of the meek, dependent, trad sister wife her mother evidently wants her to be.

It's ok to BE a homemaker if that's what works for your family but to say that's the most important thing to a young girl is really unfortunate.

My niece was raised this way. She’s now 24, married, and unable to function without asking her husband or parents for help. She can’t make a doctor appointment herself much less go to one without her husband or one of her parents there because she was taught that she has no agency. I get that everyone lives differently but teaching a woman )or anyone for that matter) that they can’t function independently is a huge disservice.

my mom was like this and is still like this. always said stuff about "future kids" and "when you get a husband" didn't end very well.

Wow! I hope it is sarcasm, because that is what the Nazis wanted.

This is gross and purely for likes/attention. If you truly are a “traditional wife” whatever the hell that means, then you don’t feel any need to talk about it/brag about/seek validation about it. Not to mention, you never throw your kids in the picture. Raising your daughters to be servants and breeders isn’t traditional, it’s indoctrination into a lifestyle that may or may not be right for them. I am not a fan of shaming mothers on the whole, because there are many variations of a “good mother”, but allow your children to figure out who they are. Let them breathe. The best case scenario here is that this really backfires and this little girl grows up to be a brilliant neurosurgeon who looks at her mother someday and says, “wtf???” The more realistic version is she will heavily resent her mother for bringing her into this cultural narrative without her consent and she won’t even deal with her. It’s just all very sad.

Gee, I wonder if she's religious or American... Side note, this reminds me of the other mom indoctrinating her son to tolerate a woman's "need" for things like "retail therapy" and other c**p. The Toxic Moms of TikTok

With the climate crisis and how expensive living in a society is today this is just unrealistic.

Yeah, a woman’s only purpose in life is to be a servant and breeding cow for her husband, and not be her own person. What’s going to happen if she ends up with an abusive husband? She’ll have no money to get out and no job skills to support herself. These people think being a wife is all June Cleaver pearls and sparkles and don’t think about what happens if it all turns into “The Burning Bed”.

What is the mother trying to do raise a Stepford wife? Seriously this thinking to me is dangerous, women are not put on this earth to serve men I don’t care what the Religious people say.

She's being raised to be an indentured servant.

Eyebrows on FREAK 💀

This is what happened to Josh Duggar's wife. She is still married to him despite him being a garbage human because she was taught to be a domestic servant and has no way of taking care of herself and her children. She has to be dependent on him and his dumpster family.

Choosing to be functionally helpless is a new level of self sabotage I never thought I’d see. This chick has no idea what the 50’s was like, bring back the wife beating!

Wow... that disgusting smug smile she posted says more than anything. What absolute trash

Why is BP getting hate for posting the article?

Haha what on earth is this. What about being independent? Getting a job? I’m not saying being a housewife is bad just that maybe don’t teach your kids to be entirely dependent on other people

The part about this that bothers me is that she's telling her daughter how she should feel. I would have no issue with her telling her daughter, "serving my husband and bearing children has been the greatest joy in my life". If that's how OP truly feels, then it's totally appropriate to share with their child. Let the kid figure out how they feel and what they want for their life on their own.

It's ok if that's what the child wants to do. There's nothing wrong with depending on your husband and being a housewife but this lady forgets to teach her child that even if she believes a husband to depend on is a good idea it's not a necessity for life and her daughter can choose how she wants to live

My oldest son was 6 at the time. I had been a stay at home mom for 4 years. (Yeah I worked when he was very little) I told him I was going back to work. He said, good you're bored at home. So true.

Wait until you HAVE to get out for your own and your daughter's safety, but can't because you have no bank account, job experience, vehicle, etc. Or when he gets tired of being married to a maid/cook/nanny with no personality or interests of her own and gets a side piece. Or when you start aging out of the prettiness you're relying on. You've basically said you're not a human being in your own right, but only insofar as you 'serve' your husband. It's gross.

And if her daughter turns out to be gay? Something tells me she won’t like her depending on another woman…

If she's such a good traditional wife, why is she wasting time with videos instead of cleaning and cooking for her husband?

I'm in my sixties and was raised by a dad who said, 'your brother can always dig ditches, but you girls need an education.' CHECK. I wound up being a single mom and doing okay (not great... Glass ceiling + single mom = limited career mobility) and became secure enough to attract partners that constantly needed boosting. That may say more about my own psychology than about building my own security... But the flip side of all this is that I sometimes wish someone would look after ME for a freaking change. As much of a Gloria Steinem fan as I am, my reality has been work outside the home, primary homemaker and looking everyone else, often at my own expense. So the lady in this post might be a little whacko (empower your kids to make life choices, don't brainwash them) but she's not completely wrong. Being a woman is hard.