Working Women Do Not Put Their Children at Risk of Emotional Trauma

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Working Women do not put Their Children at Risk of Emotional Trauma Women are often thought of as the “homemakers” in families, but now-a-days this standard is being broken. We are currently seeing women become the “homemaker’s” counterpart, the “breadwinner”. However, with women now working jobs as well as the father, who is to care of the children? Yes, there are babysitters who can do this job perfectly, but how can one be sure that the children will not become emotionally traumatized by isolation from his or her mother? By having their mother go to work as well as their father children can learn not to be prejudiced against others, become independent and have strengthened family values. This his being taken into consideration, working mothers in two parent families where the fathers also work do not put their children at risk of emotional trauma. A working woman in a two parent family gives the children the foundation for understanding and acceptance of equality. Equality is important for the emotional development of children because it gives them confidence that they deserve equal chances and are normal just like everyone else. Feeling normal and belonging are needed according to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory for self-actualization which is the optimum state that a human could hope to achieve because they are happy with themselves and everything around them. When at this stage in one’s life chances of being emotionally traumatized are lessened because of their content. Both parents working allows the children to have time away from them. This is an early simulation of what it will be like when they have grown up and can no longer rely on their parents. It increases the children’s independence and can decrease the chance of them developing codependency issues, which lead to emotional trauma. In addition, for female children it can prove to them that
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