Maternal Employment’s Effects on Children
Maternal Employment’s Effects on Children
Ahlam Alkhuzai
Eastern Michigan University
Abstract
During the last years, the rate of maternal employment has significantly increased. Thus, the mothers’ role in family has been affected. When working long time outside the house or dealing with work’s problems and pressures, mothers can be easily affected, which consequentially affects their children. This research paper explores the impacts of maternal employment on children of working mothers in three main areas: children’s health, mother-child relationship and children’s personal development. Knowing the impacts of maternal employment helps mothers to decide whether the work is worthwhile and how they can circumvent those impacts on their children.
Maternal Employment’s Effects on Children Work vs. family is one of the hardest decisions that mothers today have to take very carefully. Unlike the past, the majority of women are pursuing careers outside the house; therefore, most of their time is spent outside. Since mothers are the traditional cores of family’s structure, their domestic roles have effects on all family’s members. Mothers’ works outside the house would never replace their works inside it. Thus, many women are struggling to balance between being a career professional or supermom. In fact, the balance between them is not impossible, but it needs a lot of hard works and experiences along with helps from all family members. During the road to this balance, working mothers’ struggles affect their family in many ways, especially their children. The children’s health, their relationship with their mothers and also the children’s personal development are affected by maternal employment. While working mothers spend most of their time working outside the house, their children’s health is negatively affected. The children health could be affected by many factors, and the quality of food they eat is one of these factors. In fact, connecting
Ahlam Alkhuzai
Eastern Michigan University
Abstract
During the last years, the rate of maternal employment has significantly increased. Thus, the mothers’ role in family has been affected. When working long time outside the house or dealing with work’s problems and pressures, mothers can be easily affected, which consequentially affects their children. This research paper explores the impacts of maternal employment on children of working mothers in three main areas: children’s health, mother-child relationship and children’s personal development. Knowing the impacts of maternal employment helps mothers to decide whether the work is worthwhile and how they can circumvent those impacts on their children.
Maternal Employment’s Effects on Children Work vs. family is one of the hardest decisions that mothers today have to take very carefully. Unlike the past, the majority of women are pursuing careers outside the house; therefore, most of their time is spent outside. Since mothers are the traditional cores of family’s structure, their domestic roles have effects on all family’s members. Mothers’ works outside the house would never replace their works inside it. Thus, many women are struggling to balance between being a career professional or supermom. In fact, the balance between them is not impossible, but it needs a lot of hard works and experiences along with helps from all family members. During the road to this balance, working mothers’ struggles affect their family in many ways, especially their children. The children’s health, their relationship with their mothers and also the children’s personal development are affected by maternal employment. While working mothers spend most of their time working outside the house, their children’s health is negatively affected. The children health could be affected by many factors, and the quality of food they eat is one of these factors. In fact, connecting
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