correct, and it's a point well worth making and remembering. ann romney cannot in a MILLION YEARS understand or sympathize with most working mothers. Not all moms enjoy the luxury of being a stay-at-home mom with a rich husband, so she doesn't have to work. So she doesn't have that weight on her shoulders of whether they'll eat tonight or not, or whether she'll have to choose between buying food or being able to afford a trip to the emergency room with a sick or injured child. She's never had to face life like that. When you wonder if you'll be able to support a baby on the way, and don't know how you'll do it if you still need that full-time job. People like her husband are responsible for hurting women, helping the walls close in on them, and denying them options and choices and even a simple safety net if their world turns upside down beyond their control.
I know she has health issues, but she'll never worry about being able to afford the best medical care. She'll have everything she needs and then some for the rest of her life. She won't have to worry about her sons - either being killed in some foreign war, OR how they will make ends meet in an increasingly shaky world, since wealthy hubby gave them each a nice multi-million-dollar starter fund. She'll never know that sense of deep insecurity and fear, or the desperation every time the phone rings that it's probably a bill collector, or that the car will disappear overnight because it was finally repossessed, or that the bank's about to foreclose on the one little home she has. Her biggest concern I suppose was pretty much which Cadillac to drive the kid to the doctor. And if she had concerns for herself - the one that NEVER plagued her was how she was going to stretch a meager family budget to feed seven people every night and keep the wolves away from the door.
It's not even close. Certainly raising five boys had to be hard work. My mother-in-law had three, and it drove her to drink. I have seven or eight boys around the house on a regular basis because of my son's band, and that can be NUTS. No one's denying motherhood is hard, even with loads of money. But having loads of money MAKES A DIFFERENCE. A HUGE difference! It eases an AWFUL LOT of pain and suffering.
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