The Most Honorable Work in the World Culture spent fifty years convincing women it wasn’t. by Alexander J. Destino Jr.

Is there a greater honor or more important job in the world than being a wife and mother?

God designed women for this calling and equipped them for it — nurturing, strength, instinct, and love. No man can replace what they do. It is the foundation of the family — where faith is first formed and where civilization begins.

“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.” — Proverbs 31:25

Being a wife and mother — there is nothing more feminine, more powerful, or more purposeful a woman can do. It is exactly what God created her for. But generations of women have been told by the culture that fulfillment is found somewhere else. It never was.

“She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.” — Proverbs 31:27

This is not a small calling. This is world-shaping work. The fruit of a faithful mother lasts forever.

“Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.” — Proverbs 31:28

Convincing women that motherhood is somehow “less than” is one of the greatest lies ever told. The progressive feminist movement promised liberation. What it delivered was a second full-time job — and the American family paid the price.

Most mothers today aren’t choosing between career and home. The choice was made for them. There was a time in this country when a family could have a home, a car, two or three children — and do it on one income. That wasn’t a fairy tale. That was America. When the culture told women the home was beneath them, it also helped engineer an economy that made sure they couldn’t afford to stay there. Then it called that progress.

The women who worked full-time and came home to be mothers anyway — they are not the failure of this story. They are the strength of it. They did what they had to do. The failure belongs to the culture that put them there.

“Train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind.” — Titus 2:4–5

This calling was never meant to die with one generation. It was meant to be passed down.

Any political movement that builds a serious economic framework to allow families to thrive on one income again will have the support of the American people for generations. The family vote is the most powerful vote in this country. When families can survive on one income, families will flourish — and this nation will properly raise its children again.

The resources are there. The billions wasted on fraud, bloated bureaucracy, and programs that have done nothing to strengthen the American family could be redirected toward the people doing the most important work in the world — raising the next generation.

God did not make a mistake with His design for marriage and motherhood. The mistake was abandoning His design.

And it is never too late to find our way back.

(Reposted with permission from the author. )