"If we choose not to do this very special job (homemaking), it will simply not get done. The mothering, the nurturing, the comforting, and caring that fills the committed homemaker's day will simply be lost & impoverished. Children will not get the spiritual guidance they need. Lonely teenagers will not be listened to. Many people with problems will not be ministered to. Many sick folk will go unvisited. A special human quality will disappear from our culture.
Women can give up their jobs as clerks, engineers, sales people, doctors--other people will step in and the world will go on as smoothly as before. It will be business as usual. The groceries will still be sold, trucks loaded with merchandise will still roll across our highway, and Wall Street will carry on." (maybe? maybe not?)
"Not so with homemaking. We are the special people into whose hands the country and the world have been entrusted. When we leave this job, the world does not go on as before. It falters and begins to lose its way. We homemakers are indispensable."
~Mary LaGrand Bouma
