To say a mother without a career is a worse mother because she is somehow less intelligent is making a mockery of women's autonomy of choice. Many well qualified women stay at home to look after their child out of love and passion. A argument that career mothers are better because they are more capable to educate their child is not applicable anyway, as surely the level of education a child needs before entering schooling can be taught by anyone and certainly will not include complex accounts management or advance trigonometry!!!

This argument implies that a better educated parent will make a more intelligent child. That is ridiculous.As long as the child is well looked after, fed three times a day, given the opportunities to explore, with a warm shelter and a roof over their heads the parents are doing a good job.

Even if the career women are more intellectual and can be more stimulating to the child's mind, you must factor in having to work late into this complex equation. Many career driven parents won't be home until after the child has gone to sleep and as such the 'education' that they can pass on is already limited.

Children inherently need their parents. No daycare provider can guarantee the safety, security, love, admiration, and education of a child like the parents. Children, in many cases, actually need their parents more as they get older. Middle school aged children are often affected by inappropriate peer influences, lack of parental involvement, and a lack of insight into the consequences of their actions. Parents are solely responsible for providing the most thorough, morally appropriate, and influential information that their children will receive on a daily basis and apply in their lives.

A stay-at-home mother is more capable of a quick response to a teacher's request for a conference, and is more available to work around her child's schedule of events. A stay-at-home mom is much more likely to participate in the daily learning and exploring activities of her child such as field trips and special events both during and after school.

Children who come home after school to a waiting parent are more far less likely to create problems or engage in misconduct or other inappropriate activities that may be harmful. This is especially true during the middle and high school years where stay-at-home moms are most likely to go back to work having assumed that their oversight is no longer necessary.

There is no evidence, research or data to suggest that stay-at-home moms reinforce traditional values towards their children.

In many cases, financial stability has little to do with who works or how many earners are present in the household, but rather with the specific job(s) actually worked, and the amount of time actually devoted to that job. If one wage earner is more likely to advance in his career, then he should focus on that aspect rather than further dividing his time among activities.

As indiciated in the original argument, "Providing for your children is a reality many women have to deal with. Women should not be judged for how they face this reality and there are many women out there that have no other choice but to be the sole providers for their family." Very true! However, men SHOULD be judged for not providing for their family, for not providing an adequate living for their family, for failing to teach their sons and daughters how to work hard, how to love, how to help others, how to dedicate themselves to being great spouses and parents, and for not fully supporting their offspring and women with whom they have had relations.

Men are to blame for the ills of so many unsupported single mothers, not women.