This is a term used in the field of education, the acronym stands for; Not in Education, Employment or Training but young people have started to use it as a term for bums/layabouts with no future.
Depends which country you've taken your definition of NEET from.
In the UK, the classification is applied to people aged 16-24 (thus excluding the retired) and sometimes phrased as "respondents who were out of work or looking for a job, looking after children or family members, on unpaid holiday or traveling, sick or disabled, doing voluntary work or engaged in another unspecified activity"
On the other hand in Japan the NEET classification covers ages 15 and 34; and people who are engaged in housework or who are actively seeking work aren't considered NEETs.
Unrecognized by who? Unpaid? You are investing in the most valuable thing that exists. Is somebody else supposed to pay you to raise your own children?
Wouldn't be a terrible idea given the long-term benefit to society at large of having young, healthy, educated adults. A relative shortage of them is a serious concern for a number of societies around the world.
"Society at large" is more hostile to young, healthy, educated adults than ever. The first step is to reduce the leeching of these people, so that they can have families as is the natural order.
There is increasingly an expectation that mothers will have a paying job. My wife is a stay-at-home mom and gets some strange reactions when sharing this (I just say it's way harder than my job).
Lot's of people (like more than half the population we interact with) assume that my wife has a job, even knowing that we have four kids. I'm not sure your advice about ignoring all of them is sound...
NEET
This is a term used in the field of education, the acronym stands for; Not in Education, Employment or Training but young people have started to use it as a term for bums/layabouts with no future.