Family as a profession?

The media talk about the crisis in society almost daily. It affected not only the economic and financial spheres of society, but also penetrated into the sphere of interpersonal relations and the family. Silver” weddings are becoming a thing of the past, not to mention “golden” weddings.

The new generation is no longer interested in the values of the traditional way of life. Success, career, independence have become the new benchmarks of our society. And the flip side of these “benefits” – cynicism, depression, loneliness. Divorce and abandoned children are becoming the norm. We begin to get used to it, accept it as inevitable, which we have no power to change. Will this be the future of our children?

Are we so powerless? Let’s try to figure it out.

The foundation of any society is the family. The atmosphere in which a child grows up determines his moral values, worldview, health, and mental state. This is a very serious, responsible job, the execution of which, for the most part, falls on the shoulders of women.

Along with this domestic improvement, requiring a lot of effort and time. One listing of all the things to do will take a few minutes. And also the work is sometimes uninteresting, unpromising. But what about without it? After all, this money is the source of the family’s income. A woman simply has no choice. Being a hostess, a mother, a family manager is not a profession, but a familiar way of life in the family.

But in analyzing the state of society, I wondered: why, in fact, not a profession? Don’t you need special knowledge and skills to organize your life, prepare meals, raise your children, and build a culture of relationships?

We see that the modern generation is developing much faster than we are. Adults quickly lose their authority in front of children because they simply have nothing to give, nothing to teach. Adults need to learn for themselves. But when – with constant employment and work? Calls for conscience do not yield results either.

Only the state can change this state of affairs by making it possible to combine family and career for women, for whom family and child-rearing are seen as the main mission of their lives. And there will be many of them. I think their numbers will outnumber the percentage of male unemployment, thereby freeing up jobs for men.

Let us imagine that a woman’s work in the family is declared as an independent profession with training, learning pedagogy, psychology, a foreign language, medicine (ethics of pregnancy, first aid), healthy diet, household hygiene, computer literacy.

The list could go on. All of this has to be learned, qualified, professionalized, and paid for raising children and running a household.

Only a family can take care of a child consciously, be able to recognize his or her individual abilities, and develop talent. I don’t think these are idle dreams. That’s when family traditions will appear, and the family will acquire a different status. Stability, thoroughness, security, responsibility will become real feelings and moral criteria for the little man. After all, it only takes one generation to change the situation in society.

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