Cherie Blair: Former PM’s wife, Catholic, Idiot.
All evidence to the contrary, Cherie Blair “says it’s ‘dangerous’ for women to stay at home to look after their children, who benefit if their mother works. “
Yup.
Well, Cherie Blair has sounded off again, in her usual arrogant Left-wing elitist manner: this time giving us an almost archetypal specimen of feminist hostility to traditional marriage. It is also another specimen of hostility to what the Church thinks about marriage, and thus of her own very odd brand of secularised Catholicism-lite (she and her husband, of course, are notoriously great pals of Hans Küng).
Last week, at an international conference of “most powerful women”, organised by Fortune magazine, she explained that mothers who gave up work in order to concentrate on bringing up their children were making “a dangerous mistake”.
“Every woman needs to be self-sufficient”, she said; “and in that way you really don’t have a choice – for your own satisfaction; you hear these yummy mummies talk about being the best possible mother and they put all their effort into their children. I also want to be the best possible mother, but I know that my job as a mother includes bringing my children up so actually they can live without me.”
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be mamas.
I am stunned that this topic keeps coming up. I thought that the tide had turned at that most people are growing increasingly appreciative of the role of Mom at home. I still think this is true. Just, perhaps, not among the liberal elite.
June 26, 2012 at 1:44 pm
It's always about justification for their own choices. "Never mind the statistics," they say, "Children benefit by their mothers working outside the home because I work outside the home and can't deal with the fact that I may have been able to choose better."
June 26, 2012 at 1:51 pm
Interestingly, the Irish Times online posted an opinion piece yesterday addressing this speech by Mrs. Blair; I quite agree with the author who says that the ironic fact is that feminism claims to be all about choices, but then devalues those who choose domesticity: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0625/1224318624922.html
June 26, 2012 at 3:37 pm
All those years I put in with the children…and I never knew I was a Yummy Mummy. Yum.
June 26, 2012 at 4:05 pm
Need a t-shirt that says Yummy Mummy.
June 26, 2012 at 4:36 pm
I am not a mother but I must say that I am insulted on behalf of the stay-at-home moms. I have plenty of friends who are stay-at-home moms and when I hear them talk about they do in a day, I know they work harder than me who is an admin. I have to agree with Amy that they are just justifing their own actions because they do not want to admit that they may have choose the wrong course in their parenting.
Cheri
June 26, 2012 at 5:25 pm
It will delight her in her old age to know that she raised her children to be detached from her, so that it will not pain them to stick her in a nursing home, where she can enjoy her power and independence in solitary peace.
That's true love – to make sure that everyone can do without you and be without you. Even, perhaps, long for the day you are gone.
June 27, 2012 at 10:10 am
What the heck is a "Yummy mummy"??? Must be some British slang. Stay at home moms are dangerous, all right. Dangerous to the Marxist agenda of Fabians like Blair. Can't be having strong families competing with the Nanny state. People might actually become functional, healthy human beings instead of consuming, dysfunctional cattle.
June 27, 2012 at 10:12 am
Blair is a perfect example of Fabianism, the infiltration of communists into an institution to subvert it to commie ends. That is why she is "Catholic".