Thursday, May 03, 2007

Motherhood Worth Money?

What this article explains that if mothers could make money for being a mother than they would be worth 138,000. She would get this much money because of the fact that she is a housekeeper, psychologist, and cook. The also mention that she would make another 83,000 if she worked outside of the house. After reading this article my question is, can you really put a price on motherhood? and if you could do you agree?

4 comments:

Brittany D said...

I dont really think you can put a price on motherhood, only because if they dont work they will not get paid anyways. It is just a theoretical amount of income the could recieve if they worked all those jobs.

Eric Dowler said...

Economically speaking, motherhood could be classified as an implicit cost. The $83,000 is the opportunity cost for women if they decide not to have children. If women are ok with the opportunity costs associated there should not be a problem. You can put a price on motherhood-it's termed as opportunity cost.

Joshua Busser said...

I love these analyses - they take so many liberties in analyzing what mother's should be paid. It seems unfair to analyze the individual tasks a mother performs as a whole and assign a dollar amount they would earn in the "real world" should they complete those tasks there. Most tasks done by mothers that are accounted for, such as being a psychologist or an educator in a day care, are done with little or no formal training in those areas, and can't be assigned a value based on the pay a trained professional in that field could earn. Rather than try to place a compensation value on a mother's work, why not try to appreciate the work more? I'm sure the women who do these daily tasks would love that more than hypothetical figures.

Mark Briggs said...

You definately can't put a price on motherhood. That is an absolutely absurd notion. Like Josh said, they take so many liberties when doing research like this, it is ridiculous.