Center’s Statistics on Traditional Family

Re Jan Hofmann’s “Family of Tomorrow: It Won’t Be the Jetsons” (Orange County Life, June 17):

I should introduce myself to Peter Morrison, director of the RAND Corp. Population Research Center. He doesn’t think that I exist. But I have many witnesses who say that I do.

He said, “The traditional family of America nostalgia with a male breadwinner, full-time female homemaker isn’t there anymore.”

That simply is not true. Besides myself, I have many friends who can prove him wrong.

I have been a full-time homemaker for 20 years, my husband brings home the bread and together we make a home for our five children.

We live very simply, which is not easy to do; rather than put me in the work force, we have chosen to do without a lot of “things” others consider necessities.

I get very tired of the media and others like Morrison writing full-time homemakers out of existence. Perhaps they wish we weren’t there so they can further perpetrate the child-care crisis myth and also convince women they will only be satisfied if they join their sisters in the work force.

I don’t think Morrison’s statistics and predictions are either true or accurate. Most of my 200-plus friends are homemakers, have three or more children and have no intention of working outside the home.

The damage done to children because their mother is working outside the home is evidenced in broken marriages, the drug problem, teen-age promiscuity and teen suicides.

That old adage, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world” is still true.

I speak on behalf of all mothers who are alive and well. I believe we are at home producing a generation of children who will lead our country out of the moral cesspool it is now in.

WENDY LEECE

Costa Mesa