Positive And Negative Influences Of Working And Stay At Home Mothers On Children

When highly paid professional women leave jobs to stay home and take care of their children they are considered ?good mothers?. Also, when they do decide to work outside the home they are judged as ?selfish? and ?bad mothers?. However, the expectation of poor women is the exact opposite. Poor women are often criticized for staying home to take care of their children and are expected to leave the home and work for wage in order to receive the ?good mother? approval from society.

Being a mother is a full time job because as a mother you need to be around your child all the time. Even the father plays a similar role but nothing can ever come close to the nurturing capabilities of a mother towards her child. However, the present trends reflect that most parents are generally engaged in professional jobs where they need to devote a certain amount of time. Irrespective of the professional commitments that parents have, they must also give time to their children and take care of their responsibilities.

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 women are choosing to stay home with their children, and as she puts it, “most of these women are choosing not so much to drop out as to stop out.”

Whether you know it or not, there is a great underground debate about which mom is the best and which is the best for the kids. Are working moms better than stay-at-home moms? Or vice versa?

Even though I grew up in a family where my mother was not the traditional homemaker and my family never pressures me to want children, I still feel the pressure to become a mother and a homemaker. On a microcosmic level, in my family structure, my mom splits her time between work and being a homemaker. She works at an office in Phoenix two days a week and then works from home the other three. Originally, she decided to work in this fashion when my brothers and I were all in elementary school and we couldn’t afford after school care or a babysitter five days a way. Thus, the socioeconomic pressures and social fact that children

According to https://sites.psu.edu, “...51 percent of survey respondents believe that mothers should stay at home and not be employed, as it makes children “better off.”

There are many different reasons as to why parents rather keep their child home than enroll them into a centre-based childcare facility. Also, many different arguments as to which form of care is more beneficial to the child, homecare or daycare. There is a reliance on informal childcare from partners, friends, and family that mothers who return to work soon after giving birth depend on (Zagel et al., 2013). Zagel et al., (2013) states such informal childcare has detrimental effects on the children whereas daycares have beneficial effects on children. According to Lowry (2011), children are usually put in childcare because both parents are working. Compared to co-parents, lone mothers who worked full time were less likely to use informal childcare

Are children who have a stay-at-home parent more successful than children who do not have a stay-at-home parent? Through personal experience I can say that when my mom was a stay-at-home parent, I was more successful. My mom made sure her children were always busy and keeping themselves out of trouble, whereas when she was employed my grades slipped, I got into trouble more often and I was not involved in any activities. Stay-at-home parents are generally more involved with their children’s education, activities, and household responsibilities.

“10 Things a Single Parent Wants You to Know” is an article in Reader’s Digest by Jen Babakhan. This begins by saying that just because you have a spouse that works a lot does not mean you are a single parent. One significant difference is that single parents provide all the income and attention in the household. Next the article discusses that while parenting alone has it’s challenges it’s also very rewarding. I relate this article back to the chapter and class discussions on different family structures and socioeconomic factors.

Many studies examine the influences of the child-care practices of employed moms on kids, however, disregard how employed moms' experience of motherhood influence their own lives and their childrearing limits. Susan Lewis in her article “Motherhood and Employment: The Impact of Social and organizational Values (1991)” examines the social development of parenthood and occupation and their effect on moms. “Cultural directives prescribe that women should become mothers and subsequently reduce their involvement in paid work, or, more recently that women can fulfill all the demands of full-time exclusive mothering and full-time paid work, without modifying the demands of either” (Lewis 195). She points out the connection between “employment” and

When a mother works outside the home it is considered maternal employment. The nation has seen more and more mothers entering the work force. In fact, women, whose presence in the work force have been ascending, are now the main providers in 40 percent of families, up from 11 percent in 1960 (Wang, Parker, Taylor, 2013). Therefore, it is believed that mothers work hours are a hinder to a child’s cognitive development. This controversy has been a focus of psychology and sociology literature over the past decades (Bernal, 2008). However many mothers here in the United States are still working outside of the home because the income is needed to help the family’s financial needs. This paper will show that early maternal employment can have an impact on children ages 3-5 cognitive development. How maternal employment impact adolescences’ achievement, behavior, and cognitive development will be shown in this paper also. Maternal employment impact on a child’s mental health will also be discussed in this paper. This paper will also show maternal employment effects on childhood obesity. Then maternal employment and child care effect on child development will be discussed. Finally maternal employment effect on juvenile delinquency will be discussed.

One of the biggest challenges in modern day families is the increase in job related pressures. Unlike in the past, it is not common for both the mother and father figures

First, reason staying home would help their children better communication. They will know about their children what they want and teach them the good and the bad things. However, some parents work a lot but, they are losing their kid childhood time which is most important. In fact, the most important thing is to kids is having their mother next to them

Mothers who worked in occupations with a variety of tasks and problem solving opportunities provided more warmth and support and a greater number of stimulating materials. Their children manifested more advanced verbal competence. Such findings are consistent with the classic argument of Kohn & Schooler (1982): "What parents experience at work, they incorporate into their styles of parenting."

There are obvious disadvantages to children having a working mother, but there are not so obvious advantages. Working