Feminists have slutty kids
In an interview with Rebecca Traister of Salon, stay at home mom and cofounder of Total 180! magazine Debbi Klett says,
[…] you’ve got a lot of moms who tried to have it all and you’re seeing the results of that in that children were not getting as much dedicated attention as they were before when you had June Cleavers. I heard on TV recently that kids in grade school were giving oral sex to people for a dollar. I don’t know if that went on in the 1950s but I sure didn’t hear about it. I wasn’t around in the ’50s but you know what I mean.
This pretty much encapsulates what bothers me about the stay-at-home movement among upper-middle-class women. Klett blames society’s problems on overambitious moms, and argues that women need to save the world by being more self-denying. Thus Mom becomes a martyr, which is a great way to instill a child with a sense of guilt that will last a lifetime.