The Father's Day Index: Dad's value

What a bunch of garbage just like the evaluation of what a woman's worth is. So since I am a single father of 4, who works a fulltime job and 3 part-time plus do the work of a mother and a father, I must be worth over $100,000.  Linton and Emmet Pierce are idiots to even write stuff like this. No one care because being a mother or a father pays no monetary compensation. So to write this stuff is writing in fantasyland and in reality no one cares.

The payment to a mother and a father comes in raising good, moral children who can take care of themselves and support their families when they become adults.  To teach kids love and respect for each other; to be patriotic to this country and defend its freedoms if needed.  You raise kids like that, then that is payment itself.

This is right on if the dad is Ward Cleaver and the mom is June. We all know that the stereo typical mom and dad ended years ago. The days of walking in from work to a clean house and a cooked meal and a wife with a smile on her face are long since over. The list for the Moms is actually kinda funny. I do quite a bit of the stuff on that list also so do I get to be paid for both lists? No, it is called being a parent.

Where is the family protection (policeman) on the list ? 24 hours a day 365 days a year at a measly $15.00 an hour = $ 131,400.00 .

OK, so if Dad earns $80K a year at his job, his "real" monetary value at home is $101K -- since the home and whatever's in it wouldn't be there without him.

This piece is silly.  You can avoid all the expenses Mom and Dad pick up with their chores at home by not having a home, not having kids, not having a yard, not having a car.  People do that.  They're not happy.  Having a home is better, and it takes work and investment.  Only fools sit around brooding over whether Dad or Mom is sparing the household more maintenance and operating expenses.  Without either of them, the whole thing goes south.

Just how does one measure the glass ceiling?  No 2 people, men or women, have exactly the same experience, education, aptitude for the work, business savvy, etc.

Factor in that many women take time away from work to have and raise children, handle the doctor appointments, school functions, getting kids to practice and so on, and generally speaking women spend less time working/developing their careers.  This is NOT a shot at women and their work ethic, ability, smarts, or anything of the sort.  It is simply an observation; far more women handle "the family" than do men, which takes time from work.

What I find funny is that on one hand, business only cares about money, yet on the other, it is such a good ole' boy network that they will gladly pay men more for the same work just to keep women out of the club...