Re: Maid or a Good wife!
I’d have to dig up my comments in there again, but I was referring to the possibility of her learning to cook solely to satisfy demands of THOSE sorts of families who are just interested in looking for a personal cook at home. If he’s trying to pitch her to those sorts of demands, then he is looking to create a cook basically. Then all that education and upbringing was wasted, because clearly he is implying there are families that are looking for the cooking bit as a priority.
Cooking can be learned. It can be shared as a task with OTHER people in the household. No rule that only DIL makes all the food and no one else in a household. Or at least there should be no such rule, and if there is, you really need to think twice about sending your daughter into that sort of a household when you’ve invested so much in education and training on her.
Again, depends on the person. Some girls want that lifestyle. They prefer it over going to an office or being a studyholic or workaholic. I know plenty of girls who are totally lazy about ever studying or picking up a book, and they’d rather sit at home and so Sameen Jaleel recipes all day long. That’s fine if that’s their choice.
But there ARE families who only are interested in - can the girl cook, because from now on SHE will do all the cooking, and I am putting my feet up and getting served. This is common in many families even today. Kudos to families who have grown past this.