How Much Is a Mom Worth?
by Albert Mohler
Posted: Friday, May 12, 2006

Carl Bialik, "The Numbers Guy" columnist at The Wall Street Journal, looks at how some researchers try to project what a mom should be paid if mothers were paid as "domestic professionals." By any measure, the executive, administrative, medical, nutritional, therapeutic, and instructional dimensions alone would count for a major executive salary.

A consulting firm known as Salary.com Inc. estimates that the average mom deserves an annual salary of $85,876 if she works outside the home and $134,121 if she is a stay-at-home mom.
The study is a gimmick of sorts, dismissed as "silly" by Harvard economist Claudia Goldin. Who could really estimate the value of motherhood? The calling is far more than a profession.

The fact that the consulting firm added value to the stay-at-home moms was interesting, to say the least -- bucking the trend toward political correctness. the rest