"Idealized Domesticity"

In reaction to "new mommy literature often tries to address this by encouraging stay-at-home mothers to feel as though they are doing religious work as they go about household chores," author Rebecca VanDoodewaard concludes that:

Our Saviour lived an earthly life of poverty and suffering—we mothers should expect a life of much difficult work for the Kingdom and pray for grace to do it cheerfully and quietly.

[http://thechristianpundit.org/2011/11/02/idealized-domesticity/]