Working Moms VS Non Working Moms
Working Moms VS. Non Working Moms “From Betty Friedan’s 1963 The Feminine Mystique to the “Mommy Wars” and the “Opt-Out Revolution,” every decade has its debate over a mother’s decision to work or stay home with children.” (http://www.wmmsurveys.com/WhatMomsChoose.pdf)The world is very different now than it was even just 20 years ago. Many mothers have to work to make sure their families can live and have basic needs because one income just is not enough any more. Every mother has different circumstances to decide weather to stay home with their children or to resume work as soon as they can. Some families need the extra money to support their children while others make enough to live comfortably while only the father works. The world will never be happy with the way families choose to raise their children. Mothers that works and stay-at-home moms may raise their children differently, but neither is better than the other. Weather they are stay-at-home moms or working moms society will find a way to discriminate them. Employed mothers seem to always get the bad end of the deal. Just because a mother works does not mean that she is a bad mother. Her children may act out and people just assume that it is probably because she is a working mom and does not spend much time with her children. People do not look into the situation. That mom may be a mom that works all day long and comes home and goes straight to bed, but she may also be a loving mother that comes home and cooks dinner for her family
Suire 2 and spends quality time with them outside of work. Her children may just be having a rough time at school or with friends. Research shows that daughters of employed mothers have higher academic achievement and greater career success. They have also been found to be more independent and show less acting-out behavior. Studies have shown that sons of employed mothers have lower I.Q scores. It has also been documented that the sons did well academically but their
Suire 2 and spends quality time with them outside of work. Her children may just be having a rough time at school or with friends. Research shows that daughters of employed mothers have higher academic achievement and greater career success. They have also been found to be more independent and show less acting-out behavior. Studies have shown that sons of employed mothers have lower I.Q scores. It has also been documented that the sons did well academically but their
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