Theres been a big debate lately about college-educated housewives, and if were wasting our brains and baccalaureates by abandoning good jobs to wipe little noses and butts all day. It started with Linda Hirshmans Homeward Bound article in The American Prospect, wherein she decried homemaking as a detrimental road leading to a demonstrable future loss of income, power, and security for the woman who quits.