Where's Mom?: The High Calling of Wives and Mothers

by Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Feminism promises women “liberation” from the home to pursue fulfillment in professional careers and public recognition, but can it deliver? Often women who have taken salaried jobs and titled positions have found themselves enslaved to the priorities of work and career. As a result many of these women face failures in child rearing and homemaking and find that the dual responsibilities of career and family may crowd out the time for personal creativity. Dorothy Patterson urges women to reconsider these priorities and not to forget who they are meant to be. An educated professional woman herself, Patterson probes several crucial questions about the high calling of wives and mothers in light of biblical This book confronts the questions that the women of our generation are asking and provides straightforward, meaningful answers from God’s Word, giving guidance to women who want to be all they can be without forgetting who they are meant to be.

Genres: Parenting, Marriage

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2003

Reviews

[Emmie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book by Dorothy Kelley Patterson is a short quick read, but very encouraging. It is nothing new but a good reminder of the role women play as wives and mothers. It was most certainly an encouragement to me as a stay-at-home mom who sometimes, many times, takes that for granted. I was thankful to be reminded of the God given calling He has given to me and I would recommend it to others to be reminded of what God has called you to.

[E.J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

So convicted right now. This caused me to do some serious self reflection. Wow. I will be rereading this one over and over again to remind myself of my purpose and calling, not as a mother, but as a woman of God who is a mom, wife, homemaker, working woman, writer, student, and everything in between.

[Benjamin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Patterson gets it! Short but well-written work on how motherhood is a huge part of God's design for rearing godly posterity, not godless ambition.