Journal Entry - Social Security Death Benefit

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A homemaker that has not achieved a wage should be entitled to a Social Security death benefit; only depending on the type of workload being done in the household being. For instance, a reading from Bonnie Smith-Yackel, My Mother Never Worked, the mother worked a vigorous lifestyle raising up to eight kids, while also tending the care of a farm and also the household for much of her life. Changing her lifestyle from the town to the farm is much change for a person. And for a person to work continuously for 48 years on the farm helping her husband takes a lot. Even though she did not bring in income, a basic day was working tough long hours. “ Every morning and evening she milked cows, fed pigs and calves, cared for chickens, picked eggs, cooked meals, washed dishes, scrubbed floors, and tended and loved her children.”(110 MY MOTHER NEVER WORKED) This was a just one day of work for her and to do this for 365 days a year through different condition like droughts, giving birth, or disease killing livestock then she definitely deserves the benefit no matter what the law says. Reading this passage made it seem that she was much of an influence for her husband success even though she was not paid in the process sacrificing more the care of her family than herself. She even worked on the farm through all her pregnancy for the fact of survival. This mother was living a hard the working life, the lock keeping the whole family together and the fact that she became paralyzed took away her life and she had to find a new way of survival. Now if the homemaker was lazy and did nothing or barely worked at all then the person shouldn’t receive the death benefit. Furthermore, I say that it depends on how much the wife sacrifice or work that shows if the she deserves the Social Security death benefit.