Part V
THE CHILDREN: HOW ARE THEY DOING?
As the percentage of working mothers in the United States doubled from the 1970s to the present, politicians, policy analysts, and other opinion leaders questioned the effects that this change would have on the country’s children. Early research studies attempted to assess the impact of working mothers on their children and there was a time when it seemed as though every other study that was released attempted to “prove” one side of the argument over the other. The research asked such questions as: Was day care bad for children? Were working mothers depriving their children of maternal love? Were families with working mothers more stressed than families with stay-at-home mothers? Not surprisingly, given ...
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