Posts Tagged “Mother’s”
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“Mother-blame,” blaming mothers for their children’s anti-social behavior, is a common theme of social critics and policymakers. Critics charge that mothers have chosen work over parenting and that their children have suffered due to a loss of supervision and support. Their children are, therefore, more likely to commit crime. This study explores the relationship between maternal work and juvenile delinquency. The effects of maternal work are traced through a variety of delinquency pathways to delinquency. The results demonstrate that maternal work has little or no effect on family processes or on juvenile delinquency. Instead, Vander Ven suggests that variables measuring structural disadvantage are more important predictors of negative family processes and delinquent behavior in adolescents.
Working Mothers and Juvenile Delinquency
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With the stresses and strains of working mothers more in the spotlight than ever, this book provides welcome information and advice to this highly stressed, over-stretched group. needed by so many.
When I Go to Work I Feel Guilty: A Working Mother’s Guide to Sanity and Survival
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al trends, this book details the pressures–both psychological and cultural–which force women into the role of primary parent. Peters provides hands-on, practical strategies to help mothers balance work, family, and self.Amazon.com Review
Here’s a radical concept: motherhood, as it is currently envisioned and practiced in American culture, is bad for the family. This theory is the heart of Joan K. Peters’s controversial When Mothers Work, a book guaranteed to make readers question everything they thought they believed about parenting. In Peters’s view, the myth of the perfect mother, who is not only willing but glad to make huge sacrifices for her children, is really a trap that creates unhappy, unfulfilled parents and miserable children. Why, Peters asks, do we assume that the transformation into primary caregiver and ultimate authority on all things having to do with home and child is welcomed by women? Why is it that the birth of a baby radically changes most mothers’ lives while fathers often go essentially untouched? Peters is not afraid to question the sanctity–or the satisfaction–of motherhood; she points out that parenting, as it is organized today, requires women to make most of the sacrifices and take on most of the stress while depriving men of both the responsibilities and the rewards of being a parent. Many of these arguments have been made before, but what makes Peters’s book both unique and persuasive is that she doesn’t assign blame to men only; she is quick to point out that it is women themselves who are often reluctant to give up the lion’s share of responsibility for child rearing. Yet, in order for families to be truly functional, mothers must share parenting equally and accept that, while men may nurture children differently, they are just as effective. Happy children require happy parents, Peters argues, and having a life and identity outside of the home is essential to both men and women. When Mothers Work is a thoughtful critique of the state of American parenting today and a blueprint for change.
When Mothers Work: Loving Our Children Without Sacrificing Our Selves
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Whether single or married, with one child or several, every working mother must find her own unique way of balancing home and work. Here Danielle Kennedy– a mother of eight–shares the secrets of more than thirty successful working mothers from all walks of life. Ranging from self-employed mothers to mothers formerly on welfare, they offer their wisdom and advice on such issues as: * avoiding the common trap of guilt * being aware of the dangers of perfectionism * enlisting the help of family members * working with your company to meet your children’s needs * creating energy both physically and emotionally * being present for your children
Balancing Acts: An Inspirational Guide for Working Mothers
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Sandi Kahn Shelton’s hailarious tales from the front-lines of parenthood connect with parents, grandparents and parents-to-be.
You Might As Well Laugh: A Working Mother’s #1 Rule
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Lucy Kaylin has written a book that begins with the watershed moment in a mother’s lifewhen she decides to hire a proxy to care for her children. Given that it’s not only affluent women who turn to nannies anymore, this arrangement is also a watershed in the history of women’s rights. Women now have choices. And therein lies the problem. Having choices has forced women to confront their feelings about motherhood and work, and to make difficult decisions requiring wrenching sacrifice. It’s a murky, ambivalent time, and nowhere is that ambivalence more acutely expressed than in a working mother’s relationships with her children’s nanny, who serves such a precious function in the private space that is the family home. Lucy Kaylin, an experienced journalist who has interviewed prominent newsmakers of every stripe, isn’t afraid to ask the tough questions to get to the heart of this complex relationship. She looks at the nanny/mother relationship from both sides. As a working mother who hired a babysitter of her own, she knows the process intimately. Kaylin exposes both the great joys and the difficult emotional issues that play out when working women invite perfect strangers into their homes to help care for their children. The Perfect Stranger: The Truth About Mothers and Nannies
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