When Mommies Head Off to War
When you stop and think about how this world has changed in just a short amount of time it is phenomenal. From the train, to the car, to the airplane, to the space shuttle, to Mars… where does it end. But not only have technological advances taken place in the last 100 years but our jobs as mommies and daddies.
Now that the military openly allows women to enroll what happens when daddies are left home with the kids? We normally hear about men going off to war and leaving their wives and children at home. There is a new article that just came out about a father named Larry McCrum who is now “Mr. Mom” (I hate that term) because his wife was deployed to Afghanistan. He is now left home with 3 young children, oldest being in 8th grade.
When we talk about soldiers marching off to war, we usually think of men leaving behind wives and children.
But there are plenty men who are left behind because their wives are deployed.
Larry McCrum became ‘Mr. Mom’ when his soldier-wife, Julie, was sent to Afghanistan for a year.
Don’t get me wrong, I think it is a wonderful thing even though times seriously have changed. I have heard more stories just like this in the last few years.
The military issue makes me wonder if a simple role-reversal is really progress. During the Suffragette movement, one of the arguments for giging women the vote was that women would put an end to war.
Women i n the military is nothing new, the Soviets used women in combat positions (most notably as snipers) during WWII. And even earlier, some Native American groups had some female warriors. Or there is Joan of Arc, and others. As for women ending war, that is just plain sexist and obviously wrong warfare is a human problem, not a gender one. Having said that, I am all for universal suffrage and equality.