Poll: Think Stay-At-Home Parents Have It Easy?
One writer goes viral with a minute-by-minute account of a day home with little ones.
A San Francisco mother’s account of her typical day as a stay at home mom is making the rounds on the Internet and triggering controversy over whether full-time mothers have it “easy.” It’s a question mothers in Maryland—the majority whom work outside of the home—may have contemplated at one time or another. Nearly 80 percent of children under the age of 12 in 2011 in Maryland had mothers in the workforce, according to a report by the Maryland Family Network, which advocates for children and families. In 2010, nearly 71 percent of mothers with children under the age of 18 nationally were in the work force, according to U.S. Department of Labor statistics. Writer Amy Keyishian’s nearly 2,000-word narrative of one day of her life as a mother…
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2:30 pm on Friday, April 6, 2012
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