E194: The Truth About Housewives: Myth vs. Reality
The Lila Rose Show
Lila Rose
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The trad-wife trend tells us that a happy, well-run family relies on dad working outside the home while mom stays home with the kids and does all the housework. But is that actually how things have always been? Spoiler alert: Not really! Proverbs 31 shows that economic contribution has always been a part of a wife’s role—she wasn’t just sweeping the floor and baking bread.
Fast forward to today, and many families can’t survive on just one income. So, what’s a modern mom to do? Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered! I’ll share tips on how moms can be fully present for their kiddos while also contributing financially. Believe it or not, there are careers out there that actually work for moms with toddlers hanging off their legs.
The debate over whether it’s better to work or stay home has never been shaken up quite like this! Join us for a lively, honest discussion.
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00:00 - Intro
01:52 - Point 1:
08:14 - Most passionate about:
12:26 - Hallow
13:38 - Point 2:
21:30 - Covenant Eyes
22:34 - Our Modern Constructs Are Destructive
25:50 - What’s the solution?
26:34 - Proverbs 31 Woman
31:17 - Seven Weeks
32:23 - What is ‘womanly’?
35:40 - What Professions?
40:26 - Do women need careers?
42:31 - Lila vs her sister
45:21 - Lila’s business
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This idea of man-provider, mom stays at home is very modern. It's very recent. And quite frankly, |
| 0:07.1 | I would argue it can be... This is one of the points I'm most passionate about. The number one |
| 0:11.9 | responsibility of parents is... All right. So, what is the solution you might be asking? Well, |
| 0:17.0 | I think it's really important, and this is my next point, that we look at. |
| 0:33.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome back to The Lila Rose Show. All right, we discuss on this show, as you guys know, the issues of feminism, masculinity, femininity, motherhood, fatherhood. And we've done some past episode on what can be very controversial, which is, should women stay |
| 0:40.1 | home and raise their kids at home? Or should they go to work? Is work good? What about child care |
| 0:47.0 | arrangements? What about the balancing of all these things? This is something that is highly |
| 0:52.0 | controversial, certainly online in certain traditional |
| 0:55.6 | tradwife versus, you know, the boss babe circles. There's so much debate about this. And so for today's |
| 1:01.3 | episode, I wanted to tackle this topic and go through sharing my personal views on in this, |
| 1:07.2 | which I think involves some principles that are key as well as some nuance, but really provide a guide |
| 1:12.3 | for any woman who may be thinking through, how should I set up my life? Should I set up my life to be |
| 1:18.2 | that stay-at-home mom, no work outside the home period? I'm the primary caretaker. Should I set up my |
| 1:23.3 | life so that I can also have a career or part-time career, full-time career, full-time career. What about |
| 1:27.5 | the raising of my kids? All of these things, I think, are key questions that need to be asked and |
| 1:32.0 | answered. And whether you're married right now and you're working an arrangement, but maybe |
| 1:35.5 | you lack peace about it, you're like, oh, I don't like the way we're doing our lives right now. |
| 1:39.0 | Maybe you're not married and you're thinking about, hey, how do I want to set up my life in the future? I think this episode is for you. Now, if you're a man listening, I think it is also for you because if you have a woman |
| 1:47.2 | in your life that you love and you care about, these are the questions that she's grappling with, |
| 1:50.3 | and that means that you're grappling with them too. So let's get started. The first point is we are |
| 1:54.9 | at a very interesting time economically where many people need two incomes or folks are feeling the economic pressure of the fact that |
| 2:03.9 | it's very difficult to raise a family on one income in today's economic climate. And this is |
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