It is a great idea to have salaries for stay at home moms, but maybe not this day and time. When the mother stays home, it gives her more time at home to be with her children, but with mothers being at home getting wages from the government could result in the government being broke. According to http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/us_debt/us_debt.html the debt of the U.S is currently at $16.394 Trillion dollars. “Babysitters get paid to watch kids. Nannies get paid to watch kids. Teachers get paid to teach kids. Housekeepers get paid to keep the house clean. A stay-at-home mom does everything and then some. It is a thankless job great job but a thankless one.” -Carolyn West via Splash Chicago. A mother’s job is never done. Getting paid …show more content…
The world is not as safe as it was many years ago. Some people have told me that there was a time that one could leave their door open or unlocked at night, when they go to bed. Sadly the world is not like that anymore. I could see why so many moms and dads are over protective of their children. As to what was said in the first paragraph common sense is not common anymore some would say. In some way I actually do agree with that, because look how the death rates in over the years. According to childrentrends.org in 2014, males ages 15 to 19 were three times more likely to commit suicide, six times more likely to be victims of homicide, and eight times more likely to be involved in a firearm-related death than were females of the same age.(ChildrenTrends.org, …show more content…
stayed at home the government would be broke considering the fact the government is already $16.394 trillion dollars in the debt as of right now. The job of a stay at home mom replaces the jobs of nannies, housekeeper, teacher, and babysitters etc. Moms do it all and sometimes better than any housekeeper, nanny, babysitter, teacher etc. A mother’s job is never done. As a matter of fact it will never be done no matter what the situation is. Getting paid by the government just for being a stay at home mom is a good idea at first, but maybe not in this day in time, because as what was said earlier the government will go broke. Moms worry about their children, because common sense is not as common as it used to be. If common sense was as common as it used to be then maybe the suicide, homicide, and firearm related death rates would not even be mentionable right now. There are a number of jobs for stay at home moms like online jobs for example. Some of those online jobs could be a Freelance writer, working in data entry, or selling on online websites such as EBay, Amazon, or ETSy. If one is trying to find a job like that then they could take some online surveys. According to Debate.com 53% percent agree to stay at home moms getting a salary, while 47% simply do not agree to stay at home moms getting salaries. A stated in the first paragraph is it a
single mother was tough for her. She struggled day to day just to have dinner on the table for us every night. After many years of struggling my mom finally acquired a good, well paying job. My mom was now making about $11 an hour. This is still less than what the Economic Policy Institut...
You can work, but so much until it starts to affect things at home. I also believe if you want your child to have a good life then you need at least one parent at home not a babysitter or nanny. Also both parents need to equally contribute to the needs of each other and the child if both parents want to work full time
Times have changed significantly from the 70’s when I was a child. My mother was a stay at home wife for the first 10 years of my life. She cooked, cleaned, and made sure my brother and I were off to school daily. Although she didn’t have an outside job, she as well as many women believed a stay at home mom was a full time job.
Luckily, because of the feminist movement in the 60’s, our society is more accepting of the different choices women make. There still is the pressure to be a supermom, but it is perfectly acceptable to be a working mom as well, or not be a mom at all and just focus on careers. One just must be able to handle the consequences that come with their decisions.
Men are likely to get hired if they have children and tend to get paid more. In contrast, women are less likely to get hired even though they have more quality and children. This is when the gender inequality come in. In this article “The Motherhood Penalty vs. the Fatherhood Bonus” the author presented the role and the impact between the roles of the genders. Michelle Budig, a sociology professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst put it this way, “The inequality of gender role reveals when men get paid high for having children and women pay the biggest price for the low income” (Qtd. in Miller). According to Bureau of Labor Statistics, 71 percent of mothers are with their children working at home and 40 percent are the primary bread winner (Pew Research Center). In this perspective of women working at home and men working in career shift the qualification between them. The inequality is that employer sees the father as a commit worker and a mother as a distraction in workplaces because women have extra hours of work to do at home with their children and house chores. Claire Miller states that, “one of the worst career moves a women can make is to have children” (Claire Miller). As for the women in the United States, there are a lot of negative impact for them if they decide to have babies. The quality for them shrink to the corner while men hold the advantage of having
The IWF has found that when women take leave for their family, men are able to gain experience and therefore more earnings (Cooper). According to Lydia Frank from the Harvard Business Review, “...the largest pay gaps existed between married mothers and fathers who tell us they prioritize family at least 1-4 times per year. No pay gap existed between single men and women without children who said they never prioritize home/family over work.” The causes of the gender pay gap can be easily fixed if the government takes
Men are more likely to be successful in suicide attempts than women, and men usually use firearms as a means to death. “In 2010, there were 19,392 firearm-related suicides.” (CDC) I know this, because a friend committed suicide recently. 24 years old he was a marine vet and he committed suicide in the presence of his girlfriend. One minute he was talking to her and the next he pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head. Suicide by firearms is the fastest growing suicide method exceeding automobile related deaths. (Bangers v bullets; Americans and their cars) States that have more laws in favor of firearms have a greater rate of suicides related to firearms. “” Implementing tougher laws in obtaining firearms and all states implementing the San Francisco ordinance to lock up firearms that are not in use could indeed save
With no pay and the risk of losing their jobs--if additional time is requested--parents return to work in as little as two weeks after the birth of a child. This results in the absence of one or both parents during the most crucial part of a child’s life—the first year of life. Ultimately, it is the children who will suffer. The events that take place in the early years of a child life, as well as the people that surround, will influence who they become. Children need love and guidance from their parents. Babies can learn so much, parents have the time to teach them and watch them grow. It is their duty as well as their rights as parents to enjoy the first moments of life with their children. Susan J. Douglas says, “The first five years of life are so crucial to cognitive and emotional development” (Douglas Par 8). Parents often send their babies to daycare at too young of an age because they are expected to return to work and have no other choice. Others quit their job because they do not want their babies to go to daycare. This creates a financial strain on families and has lasting effects on the newborn and other young children in the home. Sharon Lerner says, “Paid parental leave frees mothers and fathers from choosing between their careers and time with their infants” (Lerner 20). Paid family leave alleviates a great deal of stress for parents who are expecting. It makes starting a family less frightening because families have enough money and time to adjust with their new lives before returning to work. This makes workers less likely to call out of upon returning and more likely to be focused on the
Women have always been stereotyped as being the mother who stays home and has the responsibility of the household and maintaining the children. Presently mothers work outside the home, but they still have the responsibility of taking care of the household. “One study of 20 industrialized countries ...
“The logic of intensive mothering, particularly as it applies to middle- and upper-middle-class mothers, therefore seems to be the greatest barrier to solving the problems detailed in this book….Nearly all mothers, for instance, feel they ought to be at home with their children, ought to want to be at home with their children, and ought to be their children’s primary parent.” Pg. 201 This quote from Untangling the Mother-Nanny Knot emphasizes on the fact that these working mothers need to let go a of that temperament that they must keep the nanny, their spouse and anyone else away from their child at any cost. Because they are not able to be there for their kids they can rest their mind knowing that the person with their child when they are not present is someone that will love them and care for them no matter what, and all the working mother must do is let go just a
To gain insight on the role of being a working mother I interviewed my mother, Jane Smith. Smith currently works forty, or more, hours a week as an office manager for a family business. Her job requires her to be at work from eight in the morning until five or six in the evening Monday through Friday. In addition to her role as an employee, she is currently married and is a mother of four daughters. These daughters are between the ages of thirteen and twenty-one; of these four daughters, three live at home with the family while the other is currently completing a study-abroad year in Germany. Smith has been a working mother for the past seven years, before which she worked as a stay-at-home parent. Her job requires her ...
Growing up, my mother was a stay at home mom who would wash clothes, clean the house, cook dinner and particularly to take care of me, after all I was the youngest of three.
About 75 percent of the 68 million women working in the United States will become pregnant at some point in their careers. Women with children are one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. labor force. In 1975, 47% of women with children under the age of 18 were employed; by 2008, this number grew to a notable 71% (Miner et al. 60. The nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Compared to other workers, mothers are often viewed as less competent, less productive, and less committed to their job, which is assumed to result in increased absenteeism and resignation (Byron and Roscigno 5).
One of the issues that parents are dealing with is money. They believe that they can’t have a stay at home parent, because they wouldn’t be able to live off of one parent’s salary. However what many people don’t know that the value of a stay a home parent is a lot more than one would imagine. According to Barbara Sefton, “The stay-at-home mother is on duty an average of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. She provides a service with a market value of approximately $36,000 annually.” This is more than some individual salaries. Most do not realize how much work a stay a stay at home mom does, from c...
Men and women are working harder than ever to survive in today's tough economy. It's a big challenge for low and middle class families to survive. To meet growing demands, it's getting difficult for families to depend on one income. To contribute to family income, mothers are coming forward and joining the workforce. Working mothers are the one who takes care of the family and work outside the home. They may be a single mothers or married mothers. Working mothers usually work to support their family financially. Some of the mothers work, just because they are more career-oriented. Working mothers may work part time or full time. Women are now the primary or only income source for 40% of US households with kids, according to a new Pew survey (Wang, Parker and Taylor, ch. 1). They play a major role in raising their family and doing household chores. There are many reasons that why mothers should work.