Is it normal that my daughter wants to be a housewife?
My husband and I have been happily married for 14 years and we have only one child, a daughter who has recently informed us that she does not wish to have a career and wants to drop out of school. Instead she wants to get married and become a submissive cleaning, cooking, raising the children type housewife.
A bit about my daughter, she first met her current boyfriend when they she was 10 years old at school. He asked her out when she was 13 years old. We found out she was sexually active at 14 years old when we walked in on them accidentally. We realised that they were teenagers and we could not stop them from having sex instead we encouraged her to be open, mature and use protection. I would like to emphasise the point that my daughter does not sleep around and has not dated another boy.
Our daughter turned 16 years old last month and is currently in grade 11 her second last year of high school, she studies English, Art, Music and Dance. She is more of an artistic musical creative girl rather than a scientific minded girl so we supported her decision to not take any maths or science subjects this year. Not to sound boastful but our daughter is a beautiful girl and attracts a lot of attention from boys, she is quite popular and has many friends. She is a quiet girl but not shy, she only speaks when she has something important to say. Her nature is quite calm, kind, friendly and very caring she has many friends and no enemies.
My daughter’s boyfriend on the other hand was quite the troublemaker he is currently 17 years old. He was sent to juvenile detention when he was around 11 for non-violent charges. We would always hear about his mischievous acts at school. He would get into trouble but it was never at the expense of another person he was not a bully. It was mainly due to mucking around in class, talking too much or breaking school property. He was also into a lot of sports rugby, running, boxing, hockey, soccer, cricket and swimming. He dropped out of school last year and joined the Australian Army he was placed into Officer training and graduated a few months ago as a Lieutenant. He lives in his own house and his own car. He gets a decent amount of money around $100,000 a year on top of the discounts and benefits he gets as a soldier. He has settled down a lot from his past, he is a respectful, well-mannered, active, polite, responsible and mature boy.
Two weeks ago my daughter gave birth to a baby boy and has since then become engaged to her boyfriend. We allowed her time off school to settle the baby down. Her boyfriend has been completely supportive and has paid for everything. It was a shock pregnancy as we only discovered she was pregnant when she was already 8 months into the pregnancy, due to the position of the baby she had not developed a noticeable bulge. My daughter now lives with her boyfriend in his house. She is quite submissive and will happily give him whatever he wants including sex, cooking, cleaning or anything else. Recently she told us that she will not go back to school or do any training courses as she does not want to get a job and instead wants to remain a housewife.