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Good Point

Kathy the Carmelite writes:

I thought, AH, but I'm a bad housewife: I don't do my housework. And the thought occurred to me: "BEING A WIFE IS NOT A JOB."

My husband and children think of it as a job, and score it as if it were a job--but the greatest part of the contribution is not tangible in meals cooked or laundry folded. The wife is the heart of the home.

I like this in part because it suggests a role for the wife & mother, husband and father that is not solely functionary..i.e...just as we don't refer to God as the Creator in the sense that he is only God when he is creating, so too does the head and heart of a household have a special role outside of what they produce.