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WAGES FOR WORK!
House work and child care should be government paid positions, because housework and child care should be recognized as real work. ... To be a house parent, one must not be receiving any income outside of the wages received for the house and child care, but one must perform most all of the tasks and duties related the home and children. ...
Work is an “activity in which one exerts strength or facilitates to do or perform something; sustained physical or mental effort to overcome obstacles and achieve an objective or result; a specific task, duty, function, or assignment often being a part or phase of some larger activity” (Merriam-Webster Online, http://www. ... This means house work and raising children is real work, therefore being a house parent is a job. ...
Now that we understand what work is, why should one get paid for doing it? An argument against a house parent being paid for the work that is required of that position is that it is a house parents duty (more likely thought of as a woman’s duty) to perform the task needed to fulfill the position. ... Our society needs to stop giving the impression that at home women, or men, are fulfilling a predetermined duty; they are however, fulfilling the requirements for work, because work is what they are doing.
Approximate Word count = 972
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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