Mom Staying Home vs Working Mom

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Stay at Home Vs Working Mom’s Working mother’s have been made a spectical for many years in regards to society thinking that if a woman decides to have a family, she should give up her career and stay at home to raise their family. The issues regarding this topic are one which I am able to identify with greatly. Having been married for over eleven years, and having two children, as a working woman and mother qualifies me to have a strong opinion on this topic. Every day in my place of work, a local school, there is a majority of young working woman. Every day it seems, someone announces an engagement, wedding, or a conception. Unlike past generations, these announcements do not automatically mean the employee is leaving her job to stay home with her new child for the next eighteen years. Some trends are showing that more women are choosing to stay at home and leave the work force when they do have a baby. (Hirshman, 2009:463) Woman in my workplace are adding a new dimension to herself; marriage or in the case of this essay, children. Usually there is excitement for the impending engagement or wedding. When someone announces they are pregnant, the same excitement ensures, but there is always the question of will she return after having her baby? I am finding in most cases in my particular place of employment, that most of the woman take off for six to eight weeks, if they have the short term disability benefits, but come back to continue teaching or working at their chosen profession. I know that most of my coworkers need to have the second income in order to provide for their family. In my first few years of marriage, I had already had my place in the workforce and had moved quite high up the ladder that I was making great money and my husband with a great career; together we had put a lot of money into savings for our future. When we decided
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