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I'm glad that Boggs was able balance her career and family for a long time. She got really lucky, getting a husband who allowed her to do this considering the time they live in. By the time she has had her second child and decides to be more attentive of her family I feel that she has had enough work experience to be able to say she was one of the few women who were privelaged enough to be a married woman AND be able to have a job. Boggs, as a mother, however does run into the whole issue about the estranged relationship that she and her child had becaues of this job and it being a possible problem. By the time she has her second child, she decides to be more involved in it's life. '''I feel that the whole essay as a whole has a strong "women should have jobs!" attitude but towards the very end all of a sudden it turns to "mothers should stay at home to raise their children" attitude.''' At least she can say that because she has tried both so has evidence to back her up.- Emely A. | I'm glad that Boggs was able balance her career and family for a long time. She got really lucky, getting a husband who allowed her to do this considering the time they live in. By the time she has had her second child and decides to be more attentive of her family I feel that she has had enough work experience to be able to say she was one of the few women who were privelaged enough to be a married woman AND be able to have a job. Boggs, as a mother, however does run into the whole issue about the estranged relationship that she and her child had becaues of this job and it being a possible problem. By the time she has her second child, she decides to be more involved in it's life. '''I feel that the whole essay as a whole has a strong "women should have jobs!" attitude but towards the very end all of a sudden it turns to "mothers should stay at home to raise their children" attitude.''' At least she can say that because she has tried both so has evidence to back her up.- Emely A. | ||
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| + | Although this account was written during the 1950s, I still see many parallels of this mother's struggle to balance career and family to contemporary America. Many women still believe that young children need to be raised by their mothers, not a daycare,babysitter or nanny. Many women, even today, become a stay at home mom while their children are young, and after they grow older go to back to work, but even 50 years later, families still have not found the ideal balance or career and family. When I was very young, my mother stayed at home with my sister and I,but when my youngest brother was born, he was a daycare baby. The economic reality the author faced that prevented her from raising her first child as she wished, is one many families still encounter today. Unfortunately, in an economy based on dual income, mothers choices still are difficult.~Juliann Boyles | ||
== Wilma Mankiller, "Indian Relocation" - 1993 about life in the 1950s == | == Wilma Mankiller, "Indian Relocation" - 1993 about life in the 1950s == | ||
