Child care Quote by Stephanie Coontz

Parenting can be established as a time-share job, but mothers are less good "switching off" their parent identity and turning to something else. Many…

— Terri E Apter

But the majority of mothers work - and are responsible for taking care of the kids and home. And more fathers are spending more…

— Brigid Schulte

Mothers work outside the home for many reasons; one of them is almost always because their families need their income to live up to…

— Kenneth Keniston

Let's face it, staying at home has its appeal. The modern family set-up with both parents working is fraught with challenges most of us…

— Susanna Reid

What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids…

— Naomi Wolf

...parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Both at-home and working mothers can overmeet their mothering responsibilities. In order to justify their jobs, working mothers can overnurture, overconnect with, and overschedule…

— Jean Marzollo

Many women assume they can't be good mothers and have challenging careers at the same time, so they might give up trying to do…

— Susan Wojcicki

Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play,…

— Ezra Taft Benson

My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to…

— Paula Broadwell

Working from home as a mother is the worst of everything. You don't have clear boundaries. The kids can get used to you going…

— Karen Finerman

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a…

— Louisa May Alcott