Free to Stay at Home
According to a Time Magazine report, more professional women are leaving the workplace to raise young children at home.
They reported a 6 percent decline in the number of working women with children less than one year old.
If you are considering leaving the workplace to make your home and children a full-time career this book can help you evaluate your decision.
Marilee Horton was once a full-time career woman, who felt called to quit her job and stay home. She communicates that having more time for her children, spouse and herself not only improved her entire family’s physical health, but also their emotional well-being. She shares many practical money saving tips and in one of her last chapters she reviews how much money she has saved simply by staying home. This book is sensitively written from a Christian perspective.
Although it is out-of-print, you’ll find it available from many used sources and also at libraries.
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Don't Waste Your Time!
Please consider removing this book from you recommendations.
It is not about a woman's jourey in deciding whether to stay at home, but a strongly misogynistic, opinionated attempt to persuade women that God wants them to consider no option other than staying at home. The author denounces those who choose to work as selfish and greedy, for she believes that, regardless of living expenses and the husband's income, "God will provide for you," if the wife stays at home. She portrays feminists as evil sinners who lure other women away from their marraiges and who all live self-absorbed, hedonistic lives filled with sexual promiscuity. She blames divorces and men cheating on women who don't try hard enough to keep their men emotionally and sexually satisfied. In addition to insisting that it is unquestionably the woman's responsibility to cook, clean, and raise the children, Ms. Horton also insists that it is a woman's responsibility to stay thin and physically attractive if she expects her husband to stay married to her without straying. She weakly and repeatedly tries to assert that the woman's role as submissive to her husband is not a weak or inferior role. I don't buy it.
There are less than ten pages addressing the issues of saving money by choosing to stay at home, and the information in those few pages is not very informative.