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Originally Posted by Kristine with a K  What are your convictions on daughters holding a job outside the home? Daughters who are, for example, out of high-school, not pursuing college, and still live at home? Is it *biblical* for young ladies to pursue a career, to become financially independent of their parents? |
I think it can't be a blanketed thought. It depends on many factors, IMHO. For example, are the parents Christians? If not, are they hostile to the faith and do they seek to suppress the daughters involvement in church, etc. Of course, even at this point, if the daughter has elders to whom she can go for counsel that's preferable to trying to independently finance her own departure. It's a last resort, in my opinion. If the parents are Christians, I don't think it's a good idea. The ideal is she stay under her father's headship until she's married, learning home-making (in a Christian worldview) from the mother. Then, after she courts a Christian young man who is not disapproved by the father (on biblical grounds), she gets married and is then under his headship.
As noted, though, if the young lady's parents are not Christians and they're hostile to her faith, and keep her from being involved in church, etc., and she cannot get help from elders/church leadership etc., and there's no Christian young man to be her knight in shining armor, I'd say that it might be permissible. But I'm not an expert So...