Author Topic: Women going to college? (Read 44890 times)

ServusSpiritusSancti · « **Reply #5 on:** April 22, 2012, 08:33:10 PM »

Ok, well I meant they shouldn't go. Sorry for any confusion. I certainly do not believe that Catholic girls should go to college.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #6 on:** April 22, 2012, 08:36:31 PM »

Quote from: SpiritusSanctus

Ok, well I meant they shouldn't go. Sorry for any confusion. I certainly do not believe that Catholic girls should go to college.

Well SS, there can justifications for Catholic girls to go to college, but I agree with you, generally speaking, they shouldn't.

When girls went to college before Vatican II there were rules on campuses to prevent many of the excesses that occur today. Still, it's clearly a bad environment for most women, it's an occasion of many sins, and confers a dubious benefit, dubious for any woman who wishes to be married and raise children.

Marcelino · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2012, 09:13:46 PM »

I agree with the opening post. Although, I wonder how men are supposed to support a wife and kids on their own, when the median wage for a full time worker in America is 25k per year and the unemployment rate is around 10%, all the while most folks commute long distances to and from work as well as too church and even just to go to the grocery store. I know it can often be done somehow, but it sure seems pretty tough. So, I guess I'm not surprised that most of the married women I know, go back to work as soon as their kids are grown enough. Although, I think it would be much better if our culture and economy encouraged women to stay home and raise families, instead of working and really helped men to be able to support a family on their own, without having to work so much, they have no time to spend with it. But Democrats will just call me sexist and Republicans will just call me anti-business

So, I'll just pretend that everything is pretty good, but just needs a little tweaking from whatever side is in control of the group I find myself surrounded by :scared2:

Elizabeth · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2012, 09:32:54 PM »

The killer is that everything is geared toward girls being more successful than boys these days. I noticed this, as an older mother with my son in first grade, how much the times had changed!!!

Seriously, I know God made each of us alive today because it is the perfect opportunity to save our soul, but these are confusing times.

My Mom was extremely well -educated at a convent school. She was married at 18. She never worked outside of her house, except at volunteer activities. Her mother, my Grandma, worked at some job after she was widowed. Most of her 8 children lived within the same block and helped out.

Nobody talks about girls being nuns anymore. When was the last time any of us even saw one outside of a few places? Girls never see them, only a lucky few are educated by them, none of us are going to have them care for us on our death-beds -- it's an immense tragedy.

I have only done some volunteer work since I was married, and my mother-in-law and others have been very "concerned" about this, and sorry for my husband having to be the wage-earner.

Topsy-turvy times we are in.

Telesphorus · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2012, 09:37:52 PM »

Quote from: Elizabeth

The killer is that everything is geared toward girls being more successful than boys these days. I noticed this, as an older mother with my son in first grade, how much the times had changed!!!

Yes, but the most pernicious thing is the way that so many boomer parents want to tear down boys, treat them contemptuously, while keeping an unrealistic exalted view of their daughters. This happens even in "traditional" homes. It's pretty clear the reason is that having a "successful" daughter gives social status, more than having a successful son. Having a daughter that marries early detracts from one's social status.