DON'T DOWNGRADE MOTHERS AT HOME

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 11, 1992                   TAG: 9202110381
SECTION: EDITORIAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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DON'T DOWNGRADE MOTHERS AT HOME
THE JAN. 30 paper quotes a hospital secretary as saying that without the sliding scale of fees at Greenvale Nursery School, she'd have to quit her job and stay home with her children.
This makes the choice of staying home to raise children appear insignificant or an unacceptable option for mothers. What's wrong with a woman choosing to be a mother at home instead of a mother at work? Nothing at all.
A large core of women choose to be mothers at home, and many more wish they could stay at home to raise their children.
Choosing to be a mother at home should never be considered insignificant work - it's not watching soaps and eating bonbons. It's rewarding, challenging, loving, at times frustrating, sometimes lonely, often unrecognized, and certainly underpaid, but never unimportant. NICOLE SHEPPARD VINTON

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB