The woman is abused and the woman does not know anything about the outside word, no help to turn to! If the woman stays home to take care of the children, they will not turn out right because their mother didn't leave the house to interact with other people in order for her to find the best way to raise her children. The woman will end up losing the children to the outside world, because they will want to explore the world that their mother did not explore. And 99.9% of her children will want to stay home just like their mother and do nothing but stay home. I know this because I know this family that lives on my block and the woman is a housewife, she cooks and does all the chores. The children do not do anything except eat and go to school. But they don't want to go to school, because they say that none of their parents can help them with their homework. The dad works two job and the mom forgot all the things that she learned when she was in school, because she stopped learning and started to take care of her children. What I mean to say is that she doesn't even know how to write her name or her children's names. All her girls that are like 12, 13, 14 and older don't know how to cook or clean because she doesn't let them. She's most likely obsessed with it because she had to get used to it or else she would get a beating from her husband. Whenever she is not feeling well and she forgets to cook or clean because she was not feeling well, she gets a beating for that. Do the police do anything about that? NO. So I will say think before you but yourself in things like this housewife business. I am just in high school and I know that it doesn't feel healthy for the children that the mother is raising or for her health. Her children were my friends and they were not allowed to stay after school for help because their parents said so, and some of them did not even go to school even when they were assigned a school to go to. Whenever their father comes home from putting in all those hours, he will be so mad that sometimes he will just beat all of his children including the baby which was about 4 months old at that time. And if you are thinking why can't the woman tell someone or call the police, you should try to step in her shoes. She don't know anything about working or writing and the only person who provides for her is the man that beats on her and her children. If you think she has a chance then you should see how many housewives get killed or kill their husbands or try to kill their husbands every year.