There's this nicely-balanced article about the "return to womanism" in last week's issue of TIME that describes how a husband and wife must juggle eachother 's work scheduels to find time to be with the children they're attempting to raise.
The most interesting point in the article comes from the perspective of the husband that takes into account the current necessity for families to have a dual income (since the middle class has suffered so much monetary loss in the past few decades), and how a single-income family would suffer under the stress: if the wife is to foresake her ambitious profession to help raise offspring (and thereby never gaining the noteriety needed to advance her position) and the husband is the only source of income (having to pursue a larger workload to ensure that the family doesn't dip below a poverty line that a dual-income household STILL has trouble battling), then family relations become strained as the wife feels confined to her household duties and the husband to his demanding profession.
What scares me most about that article, besides it being true, is that that is how my family operates (with near-minimal help from the grandma who is currently living it up back in the motherland).
Add that to trying to find money for tuition... and I'm one stressed out lil puppy.
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