This Link Is So Wrong You Can't Decide Where To Begin

[PhuturePriest]

http://www.fixthefamily.com/blog/6-reasons-to-not-send-your-daughter-to-college

 

I feel bad for posting this, as I know it will cause Basilisa Marie's brain to (Justifiably) explode.

 

Also, it was Lillabettt's idea that I post this. I'm a sheep, so I obeyed. The more you know.

[4588686]

Lilllabettt is a drunkard and a philanderer.

[PhuturePriest]

Lilllabettt is a drunkard and a philanderer.

 

She also went to college, so according to this link she is a bad Catholic woman who should be ashamed of herself for daring to attempt to think.

 

[TheresaThoma]

:popcorn:

I think the comments are the best part of the article. 

Sigh.... silly people

[EmilyAnn]

It's so stupid I can't even take it seriously (although I'm sure the author is dead serious about their opinion).

[homeschoolmom]

<Sigh> Went to college. Graduated debt-free. Got married. Worked until baby #1 came along. Quit my job. Been home ever since. There's nothing that says you can't both "go to college" and "stay home as a homemaker."

[Era Might]

I wish I could be a homemaker. i'd make a lovely home.

Edited September 15, 2013 by Era Might

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College education is overrated, knowledge and wisdom are two totally different things

[Lilllabettt]

There are many reasons not to send a child to college, exactly zero of which apply exclusively to girls.

 

I said this on facebook and I was only half-kidding: the social welfare benefits of women's education are so great that it is a woman's religious and patriotic duty to get as much education as she can possibly stand.

 

Both statements "all women should go to college" or "women should not go to college" are patently bad but if we do generalize I think it should be in favor of more formal education not less --- especially where women are concerned.

Edited September 15, 2013 by Lilllabettt

[PhuturePriest]

There are many reasons not to send a child to college, exactly zero of which apply exclusively to girls.

 

I said this on facebook and I was only half-kidding: the social welfare benefits of women's education are so great that it is a woman's religious and patriotic duty to get as much education as she can possibly stand.

 

Both statements "all women should go to college" or "women should not go to college" are patently bad but if we do generalize I think it should be in favor of more formal education not less --- especially where women are concerned.

 

If you say that, people take it to mean that you want to make sure women aren't suppressed. If I say that, people think I'm mocking women's intelligence.

 

See how sexist America is?

[PhuturePriest]

<Sigh> Went to college. Graduated debt-free. Got married. Worked until baby #1 came along. Quit my job. Been home ever since. There's nothing that says you can't both "go to college" and "stay home as a homemaker."

 

My sister went to college and never even got a job. She just got married and everything has been peachy ever since. Now her children will have a theologian for a mother, which is always a bonus.

[Maggyie]

I love how one of the reasons is that you attract the wrong kind of man.

 

Ummm, college-educated men are more likely to have resourcefulness, higher IQs and higher incomes, all good things to have when providing for a family. And who do those men usually marry? Statistically - it's college educated women. It's all about the "marriage market" and a woman with a college degree has WAY more success in the market than one with an h.s. diploma.

 

Every once in a while you will see a man with a bachelor's or higher marry a woman with a high school diploma or lower. But it's not typical.

 

People with college degrees experience less Alzheimer's. In one study, for every year of higher education completed, you reduce your risk by 11% - that's 44% by the time you get your degree. In another study, you were 3 times less likely to wind up with memory loss if you completed college.

 

Sending a girl to college often delays marriage and motherhood, and the older a woman is when she gets married, the lower her risk of divorce. The older she is when she becomes a mother, the lower her risk of poverty.

 

So unless you want your daughter to be an impoverished single mom to x number of kids, with an uneducated, teenaged ex-husband and a future of dementia, send her to college.

 

Okay, totally unfair generalization, I'm just mirroring the mental prowess displayed in the article.

[PhuturePriest]

I love how one of the reasons is that you attract the wrong kind of man.

 

Ummm, college-educated men are more likely to have resourcefulness, higher IQs and higher incomes, all good things to have when providing for a family. And who do those men usually marry? Statistically - it's college educated women. It's all about the "marriage market" and a woman with a college degree has WAY more success in the market than one with an h.s. diploma.

 

Every once in a while you will see a man with a bachelor's or higher marry a woman with a high school diploma or lower. But it's not typical.

 

People with college degrees experience less Alzheimer's. In one study, for every year of higher education completed, you reduce your risk by 11% - that's 44% by the time you get your degree. In another study, you were 3 times less likely to wind up with memory loss if you completed college.

 

Sending a girl to college often delays marriage and motherhood, and the older a woman is when she gets married, the lower her risk of divorce. The older she is when she becomes a mother, the lower her risk of poverty.

 

So unless you want your daughter to be an impoverished single mom to x number of kids, with an uneducated, teenaged ex-husband and a future of dementia, send her to college.

 

Okay, totally unfair generalization, I'm just mirroring the mental prowess displayed in the article.

 

I plan to go to Benedictine. Benedictine is NOTORIOUS for everyone getting married right away to a person they were dating in college. It didn't delay motherhood for her in the slightest, as she never would have met her husband if she didn't go to college, and they live slightly far away, so even if they did, it would have taken longer for them to get married.

[Not The Philosopher]

She also went to college, so according to this link she is a bad Catholic woman who should be ashamed of herself for daring to attempt to think.

 

 

There's a version of this picture with the faces swapped. I wish I still had it.

[PhuturePriest]

There's a version of this picture with the faces swapped. I wish I still had it.

 

I actively seek to avoid that one.