Staying at Home Mom vs. Working Mom Many women have careers before they began their family. But once the first child arrives‚ it is time to decide whether to be a stay-at-home mom or to go back to work. There are many factors that go into this decision and it is different for every family. Making a decision to stay at home with the children or join the workforce can be a difficult process. I have been fortunate to experience being a stay-at-home mom for three years. I’ve come o
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Working Mom or Stay-at-Home Mom For decades women have chosen to be a stay-at-home mom and raise their children‚ it has been in some cases a decision received with dismay by some. Whether the choice was plan‚ a divorce or becoming a widow‚ it has been and still is one that many women have made and are very proud they did. In the article “The Satisfactions of Housewifery and Motherhood / Paradise Lost (Domestic Division)‚” by Terry Martin Hekker‚ she talks about herself and how other people viewed
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Topic: My Career Goal as a Home Maker/Stay at Home Mom Question: Can being a Home Maker be viewed as a career? Central Idea: A home maker plays a vital role in the family setting and in society. There are Choices to be made when you become a Parent. Just like almost all newly married couples. You have goals of what’s next in your lives together. Finish college and then get that perfect well paying job. Well that is exactly what I had in mind. Wow‚ what would happen next would be life
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Working Women vs. Stay at Home Mom Your child has just been born‚ and you as a mother or father are torn between going back to work‚ or taking a maternity leave to be with your baby in its first months of life. Your child’s first few months are the most important‚ and this is when they learn the most. But‚ when you have one income for the family‚ and you have just had a new baby‚ things will get rough. Women of our age are told from the time they are young that we are so lucky to have more
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“Because I am a woman‚ I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail‚ no one will say‚ "She doesn’t have what it takes." They will say‚ "Women don’t have what it takes." Being a stay at home mother has its benefits but it most definitely has its flaws. In the old days women had no choice but to stay at home; cooking‚ cleaning‚ making sure dinner was ready on time. They had no say if they wanted to work or finish school. Just imagine living day to day in the same routine. Visualize waking up
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Reflective Journal #2 Stay-At-Home Mom I was never the one who would fight for feminist issues. I am very conservative person who likes to have the things the way they were decades ago. I love Helen Andelin and her book "Fascinating womanhood." I wish I could have her lifestyle. I would love to be a full-time wife and mother‚ to take care of my husband’s needs and raise my children on my own without any outside help. Unfortunately for me‚ life is not about
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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
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October 2014 Battle of Stay at Home Moms and Working Mothers It used to be the battle of the sexes: Now it’s the battle of the moms. Some moms believe it’s best to spend quality time with their children because it’s damaging being away from their from their kids for a minimum of the day. Others tend to think their children will be just as well off if they’re out at work all day and bringing home the paychecks. Friedersdorf and Adshade arrive at competing definitions for working and nonworking mothers
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Should Moms Stay at Home? Matt Sayar‚ Austin Foggs‚ Jackie Doughty‚ Dimitri Scott‚ Luke Hobbs Hobbs For the yes side of the argument‚ writer of the article from Time Magazine “The Case for Staying Home”‚ Claudia Wallis‚ says more and more women are choosing to stay at home. This article published on March 22‚ 2004 claims the ever increasing workload women are facing at work and home is forcing them not to just prioritize but to kick one to the curb. Wallis claims when this question arises most
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“The Working Mom versus the Stay at Home Mom” “The Working Mom versus the Stay at Home Mom” One major difference between a man and a woman that anyone would refuse to argue with is that women have the ability to bear children. Most of the time‚ it is in the traditional marriage setting but this is not always the case. Many children are born outside of wedlock as well as many marriages end in divorce where the children are raised primarily by one parent. Women have long been
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