Forrest Sharita Summary
Forrest, Sharita. “Weak job market has more dads staying home - and they may stay there.” Illinois News Bureau, Aug. 1, 2012, news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/205018.
Forrest provides summary, commentary, and analysis on Karen Kramer’s study on the topic of stay-at-home dads. The author focuses on the increase in the number of stay-at-home fathers, often caused by economic recessions. Families with a highly educated mother who has a greater earning potential are much more likely to have a stay-at-home father, as this makes more economical sense than the mother staying at home. However, this family structure is still looked down upon by society for both the mother and father. The number of families with stay-at-home fathers is still small, …show more content…
14). Since more women are making more money and getting higher educations than before, they are less likely and their spouse is more likely to stay home. Showing the economical side of more mothers being able to support a family with their paycheck provides another view of why men are staying at home more. Many articles in this area of research provide social change as the main reason why there are more stay at home dads and this article agrees that social change is a part of it, but cites economic change as a equally or more important factor. In 2012, when this article was written, more male dominated areas of work were laying off than female dominated areas of work. Forrest writes, “Although the number of SAHF households declines in accordance with male unemployment rates when the U.S. economy is recovering from a recession, the number of SAHF households never reverts to its pre-recession level…”(para. 6). Since more men were being laid off than women, men were becoming stay at home fathers. It is important to consider economic changes as a reason why there is now an increase in fathers becoming homemakers, and this article focuses on
Forrest provides summary, commentary, and analysis on Karen Kramer’s study on the topic of stay-at-home dads. The author focuses on the increase in the number of stay-at-home fathers, often caused by economic recessions. Families with a highly educated mother who has a greater earning potential are much more likely to have a stay-at-home father, as this makes more economical sense than the mother staying at home. However, this family structure is still looked down upon by society for both the mother and father. The number of families with stay-at-home fathers is still small, …show more content…
14). Since more women are making more money and getting higher educations than before, they are less likely and their spouse is more likely to stay home. Showing the economical side of more mothers being able to support a family with their paycheck provides another view of why men are staying at home more. Many articles in this area of research provide social change as the main reason why there are more stay at home dads and this article agrees that social change is a part of it, but cites economic change as a equally or more important factor. In 2012, when this article was written, more male dominated areas of work were laying off than female dominated areas of work. Forrest writes, “Although the number of SAHF households declines in accordance with male unemployment rates when the U.S. economy is recovering from a recession, the number of SAHF households never reverts to its pre-recession level…”(para. 6). Since more men were being laid off than women, men were becoming stay at home fathers. It is important to consider economic changes as a reason why there is now an increase in fathers becoming homemakers, and this article focuses on