Children Quote by Anonymous

“Double standards in domestic roles are deeply rooted in cultural attitudes and workplace practices. Working mothers are held to higher standards than working fathers…

— Barbara Kellerman

Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure…

— Melinda M Marshall

“To be a good mother, a woman is supposed to devote herself entirely to her children (and often a dependent and childlike husband) and…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“Work and money are not luxuries, and your children benefit in countless ways by having a proud, successful, financially comfortable mother. Go earn, and…

— Emma Johnson

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but…

— Kim Brooks

“Our culture sends some amazingly contradictory messages about what an ideal mother is like. Mothers try to live up to these ideals without recognizing…

— Kathleen Kendall-Tackett Ph.D

“Now, here's the real beauty of this contorting contradiction. Both working mothers and stay-at-home mothers get to be failures. The ethos of intensive mothering…

— Susan J. Douglas

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have…

— Erica Jong

The mother who stays home instead of working sacrifices her aspirations and career to ensure that her child is well taken care of.

— Manini Mishra

'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just…

— Catherine Reitman

“Despite the rhetorical reverence our society accords motherhood and fatherhood, in reality the everyday work of parenting garners little social respect and even less…

— Stephanie Coontz