Blog 8

Belkin believes more and more women are "opting-out" of jobs and becoming stay at home mothers. These leaves room for several arguments. For example, many women feel they were pushed out of the work force. Women are lucky if they get any more than 6 weeks at home after their baby is born, and the women who want to take more are then forced to leave their jobs because their company won't hold their position. Other women argued that Belkin's statistics were unrealistic because not every woman has the choice to work or stay at home. Belkin's article focused on women that had the option to choose what they wanted to do. Not everyone has that option, women who are single mothers can't possibly stay at home and provide for their child. People were outraged with Belkin's article because Belkin said that opting-out was a revolution, a new trend. When she hadn't even done all of the correct research. I do not have children yet, but I don't think anyone should care no matter what I chose, whether it be to stay at home or work. My parents both work full time when I was younger and I went to daycare or school all day. I had two older sisters that helped out those couple of hours where school ended until my parents got home. We never had any problems with my parents working. My mom chooses to work because she loves it. All three of her children are grown up and out of the house and she still works at least 45 hours a week. I don't think there should be anything to argue over, it's your personal opinion and what works with your lifestyle and family.