Mom spills the truth about motherhood

Magazine Article

can be found at:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/04/17/o.truth.about.motherhood/index.html

collected on: 4/18/09

This article has to do with women's studies because it is about a woman's role as a mother and the unreal expectations for mothers set by society and themselves. It also discusses contributing factors and causes of these unreal expectations for mothers. It backs the argument that mothers need help with their task and the job of a mother as it is viewed today is impossible. It talks about how mothers are divided between working mothers and stay at home moms and that they need to unite and support each other. It asserts that women are made to feel bad about complaining about being a mother and this is a typical method of oppression imposed on women by paternalistic societal views. It makes the problem invisible because no one talks about it. This article is fully a women's study article which focuses on the women's study issue of the unreal expectations for a mother.

This article is related to family/parenting. Its very topic ensures their relation, it is an article about motherhood which is the foundation of family and parenting. The second shift also relates, more specifically the mother hood aspect of the second shift. In turn it is related to Hochschild's "The Second Shift" because Hochschild discusses the entire second shift and this article discusses the motherhood aspect of the second shift.

This article reflects an advance for women and men. Women because it publicizes the ideas about the second shift which can only result in a mother's load being lightened. Also, it suggests solutions to the second shift both big and small. It reflects an advance for men because they will be made aware of how hard their wives are working and expected to work and this awareness will help them be better husbands, and men being better husbands will make both men and women happier.