premise:  As a mother of an 18-month-old daughter with an M.A. in education who has decided to stay home to raise my child (a difficult and soul-wrenching decision), I resent the characterizsation of the full-time mother as one who is occupied with `laundry, shopping, preparing dinner,' to the exclusion of one-to-one contact with my child. 
hypothesis: Her M.A. in education was actually a backup plan, she meant to be a lawyer.