I have to take a bus in order to get to and from the job site here in Fort McMurray. It’s actually really nice. I get time to wind down and read to and from work. Some times though you have to sit next to people if the bus gets filled up. Yesterday I found myself sitting next to a female, she was about my age and she works in the HR department.

She was in her last year of University and she was on her job placement. The conversation went well as we both have living in the east in common.
As the conversation progressed I was informed of all the great things she was doing and going to do. I then proceeded to ask her when she planned on raising a family. She said “I haven’t really thought about it, it doesn’t fit into my schedule.” Living in this generation, I wasn’t alarmed by her response but could you imagine her saying those words 50 years ago? No way!!

Is this a bad trait we have adopted in the 21st century?
Is it bad for our society to frown on or at least push back on producing a family?
Is it wrong to expect women to forget or a least postpone their carriers?
Should women even be thinking about careers?

Depending on how I was feeling I would answer differently on a day to day basis with those questions.

There has to be a healthy balance.

I’ll throw one thought out there that I am having about it. I am sure it will receive some slack but this isn’t my solid thought on the matter; more so an observation.

A lot of women I meet argue that they are treating with less respect in the work field and they feel they have just as much right as men to be in the work force. Which is fine and I support their equality but here is my concern. I, as a male, cannot in anyway produce a child. I can’t. I am unable to give birth to children. As shocking a statement as this might be, it’s in our makeup. That’s just how it is.

Would I be wrong then to say that women, who are only able to bare children, should in fact explore and pursue their God given ability?

I guess in order to ask that question you have to ask the basic question: why are we here anyway? Are we alive to make a beautiful portfolio of our works or are we creatures put here to re-produce and pro-create?

Call me old fashioned but I think a HUGE problem with our society is the way families are raised/dragged up nowadays.
With women entering the work force our kids are being raised by strangers, receiving the basics and being influenced from and by too many sources.

A woman might object “why can’t the man stay at home?” To which I can concur but statistics show that men generally make more in the relationship and it’s a known fact that men don’t have to take time off work to give birth.
Maybe there is a reason only women can give birth. They are and should be the nurturer and care takers of our children.