In this present age, women have more variety in job choices and more opportunities to have jobs. Each woman has her own reason why she chooses to work and generally she is trying to be beneficial to her family other than just rearing her children at home. One women’s decision to work can help her family more ways than imaginable. Honestly a working mother can provide more for her family than a stay-at-home mother.
A mother can bestow additionally to the family’s financial situation and can give her children the independence from their mother they need to grow up as a working mother.
In an article by The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation working mothers having “at least one full-time worker” are generally more apt, “74%” more, to have “job-based coverage,” and less apt, “15%” less, to be “uninsured” than working mothers having “only part-time workers” or “without any workers” (The Henry J. Kaiser Foundation). If these mothers have more health insurance, they are saving money for their family. This, in case, leads to money for childcare, necessary expenses, and leisurely activities such as vacations. Not only do families financial profit from working mothers, but the children develop at a greater rate. According to a study by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, children who, before kindergarten, attended a “high-quality daycare” had higher “vocabulary scores” and were more disciplined than children that were not taken to daycare (Online KJUH). The children of working mothers obviously are at more of an advantage in schooling than children without working mothers. With both sets of statsistic suggesting mothers to work, why should people criticize working mothers?
Thinking over the whole working mother issue, I asked an intriguing question. Why are mothers the only ones crucified for working out side of the home? Fathers never seem to receive that same criticism as mothers. According to the Census Bureau, 159,000 fathers in America are stay-at-home fathers (Census Bureau). Compared to all the parents in America, this is a very small margin. Why? Maybe more women stay home because they have a closer bond with their children due to the fact that the mothers carried their children for nine whole months. Yet from the IOL, a father was able to breastfeed his own children, according to doctors (IOL). Obviously a father can have a similar connection with his children as mothers do. All in all, the worldly view of women puts strain on mother’s consciences of leaving their children. Many have heard fathers say they try not to bring work home but do they ever feel guilty for the leaving the children in the first place?
Unfortunately people do not realize the gains of working mothers. People may still continue to criticize by the fact remain the same. Working mothers do not harm their families but in often times they help their families flourish in innumerable ways.
Tagged: opposing views, working mothers February 20, 2009
Mothers have been working out of the home for decades. With the busy schedules and full families, these mothers are pushed to the max. The pressure deposited on them can be overwhelming due to the fact that these mortal women must care for their children, put in a full work day, chafer their children to after-school activities, fix dinner, tend to her husband, put the children to bed, and finally breath at the end of the day. With all this stress, a mother may loosen her disciplinary reigns, let herself be last on the list, and allow the relationship with her significant other to decay. The life for a working mother is a balancing act that sometimes will tip over.
The facts on working mothers staying instep with the reality of work and home life are not in the favor of working mothers. According to Katharine Lewis, national correspondent for Newhouse News Service, of working mothers, “71%” discerned that “[managing a] family life” is more testing “than a career” (Katherine’s Working Moms Blog). Mothers can concur that the anxiety of rearing their children to be obedient, responsible citizens is more than that of a project at work. These children have certain demands that are just not asked for at the office. Also the necessity to keep a tight ship on organization and tidiness in the home is amplified over the needs of a mother’s career. Not only do mothers have a hard time handling work and family life but also creating a healthy eating habit for the whole family. Nigel Hawkes, the health editor for the Times Online, states that from a study of approximately “13,000 mothers,” “for every ten hours a week a mother works,” the probability of producing an adolescent “who is overweight” at three years old is intensified by 10% (Why Working Mothers Have Fatter Children). The fast past world of working mothers lends no time for a mother to focus on the planning of a healthy meal. Fast-food and microwavable dinners are the speediest ways to fix supper, yet these dinners are not healthy with high sodium and bad carbohydrates. All in all the running of a family and rearing healthy children is difficult for working mothers.
Incidently, working mothers have not decreased. Maybe mothers need to be thoroughly educated on the effects on their family due to the mother working. The issues raised can be solved in several ways one being the father stay at home or the family hire a maid to help organize and cook meals.
Tagged: opposing views, working mother February 18, 2009
Working Mothers: Good or Bad?
Claim: Working mothers put a strain on their children.
Data: With both parents juggling full schedules and trying to decide the parental duties to each other, the child may begin to wonder if the parents really want to care fore their children, or if the child is just a hassle. Because mommy and daddy were not around to tell little Sally that certain actions are right and wrong in this world, these children have no moral or values on which to base their thinking or actions. Their own parents’ actions have shown them that they, as children, weren’t worth as much as mom or dad’s career or outcast. They never had parental love, so they go looking the wrong kinds of love elsewhere.
Warrant: Because working mothers do not give enough emphasis to their children as stay-at-home mothers with all the other out of the home activities, these mothers put a stress on the relationships with their children.
Backing: A study for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found results that in young adults whose mothers worked full-time for most of their early years were less likely to pass A-level exams than children whose mothers stayed at home.
Rebuttal: The independence of being “on their own” during the day for children at daycare can help the child as they grow and become young adults in the fast pass world of high school.
Qualifier: Several cases of children with working mothers have produced children that can not function and develop with their mother’s full guidance throughout the day.
Tagged: working mothers February 6, 2009
Thanksgiving is over and the Christmas shopping is at the starting gate. Black Friday is the firing gun. Men and women, children and grandparents all search for those coveted electronics and appliances on sale. Shoving, clawing, grabbing! They finally find it and buy it. In the way shoppers investigate for bargains, AP Language students scan for rhetorical devices. Whether in books, articles, or television, rhetorical devices are the eccentric methods authors use to make their point. Though sales only come around every now and then for customers, paragons of rhetorical devices do not have to be fought over since they are all over, all the time.
Examples of Rhetoric (all from The Quotation Page)
ð Epistrophe: An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven’t been done before. (Mark Twain)
ð Alliteration: The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. (Plato)
ð Antithesis: The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. (Socrates)
ð Anaphora: The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council. (Homer)
ð Rhetorical question: If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? (Vince Lombardi)
Rhetorical device are universal. Comparable to shoppers rummaging through stores for sales, investigative literature students rummage through numerous texts for rhetorical devices. So when you read a novel or just a news report on the internet, recognize the abundant amount of rhetorical devices.
November 30, 2008
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