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* For all the talk of respecting choices, only half the stay-at-home moms in a recent Washington Post poll agreed that it’s all right for the mother of a young child to get a job if she’s happier working. [ibid] | * For all the talk of respecting choices, only half the stay-at-home moms in a recent Washington Post poll agreed that it’s all right for the mother of a young child to get a job if she’s happier working. [ibid] | ||
| − | In | + | In actuality, stay-at-home moms report having happier lives than their working counterparts.<ref>http://www.momlogic.com/2008/07/sahm_wahm_happiness_poll.php?icid=100214839x1204880052x1200231518#start</ref> |
==References== | ==References== | ||
Revision as of 03:54, December 7, 2009
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Linda Hirshman declared that women who leave work to raise children are choosing “lesser lives”. [1]
Cathy Young wrote:
- For all the talk of respecting choices, only half the stay-at-home moms in a recent Washington Post poll agreed that it’s all right for the mother of a young child to get a job if she’s happier working. [ibid]
In actuality, stay-at-home moms report having happier lives than their working counterparts.[2]