For stay at home moms..would you rather be working or no?

Why isn't there a choice for the mothers that would rather stay at home and raise their child themselves, than have them raised by strangers? I'm not a mother, but I think the limited options available is very bias and offensive. Thumbs down to the poll-creator.

Stay at home moms are not lazy! Do you have any idea how much work is involved in running a household?! A stay-at-home mom works 24 hours a day, 7 days week, 365 days a year. I seriously hope that your mom is not a stay-at-home mom, because your attitude seems to be pretty unappreciative.

If you have kids, raising them well is the best job you could ever have.

In this economy I'm sure there are a few stay at home dads too.

When my husband and I adopt a child, I plan to stay home so that I can be the sole influence in their new little life because I'd rather handle the responsibility myself than hand it off to some stranger in a daycare.

Part of that includes making meals from scratch instead of getting take-out, so you save a ton of money that way, not to mention the money saved by not enrolling in daycare. Also, I can keep the house clean during the day (instead of doing it on weekends and evenings), so that when my husband is home, it will be all about the quality time we can all spend as a family. My husband makes a lot of money (+$300,000/year), so it makes the most sense that he keeps his job, while I'm the parent who stays home (it's not because we believe in a patriarchal family).

Our choice is NOT made out of laziness - not like the bias choices presented by the maker of this poll.

well I'm going to breast feed so I have to stay home, but my husband makes more then enough money so he tells me that my job is the kids, the house, and cooking. so he works and take care of the house and the baby when he gets here.

When I lost my job I had to stay home with the kids...at first it was awesome...then I missed working.

Oh. When the time for age comes, though age is timeless, since I doubt I'll go to college, I'll find something to do until kids are had.

My mother is a stay at home mom, and she works more than my father. The best thing about her? She's not even a feminist.

But, in my mind there is the thought, I'm not too happy with how I was raised. I analyze my family and blah blah blah, I look at my life and I decided, if I have children, I don't want them raised as I was.

I've already been strongly thinking about homeschooling them (don't bring my college into this - I should be good teaching them until 10th or 11th grade.). I know exactly I drifted from my family, and if I have a kid, I'll keep him/her (REALLY hope it's a him) away from what...''common'' life. What I mean is uh. Well, s/he won't grow up hearing Ke$ha (like my mom had me on other ghetto crap of the time), and I hope to show my child/ren what I enjoy, curious what s/he'll be into.

Other than that I really don't want kids, but I also do...if I do happen to conceive, I can promise you I'll stay home and the work I'll do will be educating my kid/s. My friends have already predicted I'll end up with either some deadbeat drug addict OR a 50 year old rich mad scientist...I don't care so long as I'm happy.

I will share one thing though. My friend has an older sister, around 23, and she's gorgeous. We were talking about children, a little girly girl thing, and I asked her what her opinions were to, you know, give me some ideas. She said something along the lines of, "When I want a kid I'll adopt first. Adopt, so I'm still like beautiful and the age depending could be different. When I'm older and I'm like 'ok, I'm ready to settle down now and do this again', I'll adopt."
So I've always looked into that idea of hers. Adopt when you're young to get the whole thing down, AND do the world a favour, then when the older ages hit then well we'll see.

Did I get off topic? I bet no one reads this shit anyways. But yeah lol my mom is the hardest worker I know even though she stays home most of the day.

I work part time and I find it very therapeutic for both myself and my toddler. He gets lots of social interaction and learns in a group setting and I get out of the house and contribute a little financially. I take him to a very family-oriented home daycare though where he is treated like a part of the family and gets lots of one-on-one time. I couldn't do a full-time job away from him though--that would really suck.

Yeah, part time seems best because you're still getting that sense of contributing to the family financially, but at the same time, you're not doing too much and it doesn't take away from your time at home. Not working at all is just silly and I could never depend on my husband to do all the work like that.

YOU FUCKING SEXIST WHAT ABOUT STAY AT HOME DADS I WANNA BE A STAY AT HOME DAD

Women who stay at home with their children are not lazy. That is quite offensive. I stayed home with our children, cooked everyday, cut 5 acres of grass, snowblowed the drive in winter, planted and cleaned gardens, had a spotless house, and by far got under paid for my job. I was not a lazy stay at home mom. I was productive. Imagine doing all that plus work full time. Get real.

my company closed so i stay at home now with my baby that is less than a year old. i love bonding with her but having been a manager for a long time, i really miss working.

No and its not because im lazy...being an at home mom is not laying around all day.
I prefer to be around my daughter and wouldn't even put her into a day care until she was able to speak (I had a part time job at one time and used the day care when she could talk)

I actually just prefer being at home to do things...although I dont like cleaning I enjoy cooking crafts and working on my art and spending time with my daughter the most. At one point I was an at home mom that went to college for graphic design. (Sometimes my art sells so I get some money from that)

Having a job unless it was an artistic one would be awful as I wouldnt be able to do the things I love...
and really I cant leave my bf to do them...he cant and probably wouldnt spend time doing my daughters hair in the morning
He can only cook simple meals like hot dogs and eggs ..lol...one time I left him alone with a frozen pizza to eat...we had a pizza cooker...he burnt it...I dont know how since cooker cooks it for you...but he did.

But really if I dont who would make the tutu dresses for my daughter to play dress up? Who would cook everyone's meals? Who would knit everyone's scarves? Who would fix my daughters hair? Who woukd organize her birthday parties? Who would decorate and cook for the holidays? Who would do all these things and more???
Not lazy

I would love to stay home and take care of my children, clean the house and cook. I really would love to be able to do that but I just can't afford it

Talk about perpetuating stereotypes. If I ever have a child, I'd stay at home so that I'd be sure he/she was being raised right. As givemepeace said, thumbs down to OP.