"Babies Do Fine When Mom Works"
This article caught my eye today, as I was perusing the news. Below, are some of the statements made in the article that were of interest to me.
"Working moms in the study did spend less time overall with their young children than mothers who did not work outside the home. But they tended to make up for lost time on their off days at the expense of other activities like housework."
"When they examined two 24-hour time periods that included one workday and one nonworking day for the moms with outside jobs, the researchers found that stay-at-home moms only spent about an hour and a half more with their young child than working moms."
As I read through the article, I realized that they were indeed speaking only of very young children. I think that there is a danger in fuzzing right over that, being that many working moms may feel that what has worked in the past for their infant may still work when the child is a bit older.
I would say that the study was less than fair, because they did not compare a true stay-at-home mom and working mother. No, they compared a working mom, and a mom on her day off from work. That definitely does not give a good representation between the differences in time and care.
