Families are built with strong mothers and fathers. Families where parents share responsibilities are stronger and more resilient.
Placing all of the responsibility on the mother alone leads to more familial destruction in the future.
I’m watching it happen with my own family as my mother feels incredibly disconnected from community and the world as her children grow up. She doesn’t know what to do with herself now that her role—child rearing—no longer exists. She resents my father and my family for leaving her without a place and support system because she spends so much of her life only taking care of us while my dad didn’t do much of anything except earn the money and show up for the big events.
You can be a mother and a breadwinner without being an idiot.
Families are built with strong mothers and fathers. Families where parents share responsibilities are stronger and more resilient.
Placing all of the responsibility on the mother alone leads to more familial destruction in the future.
I’m watching it happen with my own family as my mother feels incredibly disconnected from community and the world as her children grow up. She doesn’t know what to do with herself now that her role—child rearing—no longer exists. She resents my father and my family for leaving her without a place and support system because she spends so much of her life only taking care of us while my dad didn’t do much of anything except earn the money and show up for the big events.
You can be a mother and a breadwinner without being an idiot.