The importance of having a mother at home.

I know what you are probably all thinking, she's gonna write about mothers working out of the home and the effects it has on children.. well you may be right but first I wanna touch on something we talked about in class that is a perspective that I don't know if any of us has ever considered.
"Turn to your neighbor and discuss how you would feel if the government pointed a danger in population lows and mandated that women by law must have a child and by the time your child was two years old you had to give the child to the government to be raised because they needed the adults out in the work force supporting the elderly."
This week we looked at what used to be a scare of over population, the new findings is that we are in fact going in the opposite direction and after the population peeks it will start to decline. What this means is that what now is 3 people in the work force supporting one retiree will be 1 person having to support 3 retiree's. Which explains why the government would need you to continue having kids but they couldn't have you afford to raise them. Now this last part about the children is just a what if, something our teacher said to get us to think, well it did, and here are my thoughts.
If this case we're to happen, the government would basically be paying sergeant mothers... this is something that I could never be paid for, and right now it is for selfish reasons. I am in my first trimester of pregnancy, this means I'm pretty much on the verge of throwing up.. all the time. Not fun. Do you know the council I've been given by mothers that have gone before me and got through this stage? "Once you get to hold that baby in your arms it will all be worth." I don't think these mothers we're talking about just one year of their lives and then giving them up. Ok we all know that no body wants this, so I will just end by sharing my gratitude of the way my mom raised me. The way she raised me was being there. I think back to my childhood and the most important things I remember about my mom wasn't that she made breakfast for me every single morning or that she tried to give me opportunites to develop my talents by taking me to dance lessons or falling asleep to the sound of her doing dishes at night; the overarching memory of my mom was the feeling of her being there. Sometimes I'd go hours without even talking to her BUT I FELT HER PRESENCE, this is something that you can only know the importance of if you've felt it. Having my mom THERE meant for me that if I needed to talk I could, if I needed to cry I could, If I needed help she would be there. All of these things become harder and harder for kids to humble themselves and do the older they get, but when that rare occurrence happens, will the mom be there to witness it, or will the opportunity fall to naught because the mom isn't home.
Disclaimer: I believe all mom's deepest desire is to stay home with their kids, and sometimes it is just not possible, and the extra attention these moms strive to give to make up for their absence is amazing. This article is about the ideal pattern. Elder Holland gives an analogy with this, he says his mom used to make him shirts instead of buying them, and instead of using an old shirt she had made by hand as a pattern she always started with a store pattern, because she knew it was the closest to perfection, and if she used her own made up patterns each mistake would become more extreme. So many people are trying to be politically correct now days that we never hear what is actually correct. As a people we are fallen. What I hope to do on this blog is fantasize about the life we could have as we strive to reach for the stars.