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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is OP a troll or just dumb?  The reasons mothers work are well understood - and well documented. It’s not rocket science…

If iOP really is unsure of why women work, the studies on the positive aspects of having a working mom are really going to blow their mind. [/quote]

Show me the studies that show the positive aspects of having a working mom outside of low income and single parent families having a higher family income.

People always mention these studies, but I don’t believe they actually exist.   [/quote]

Babe just freaking Google it. Literally the first result: “ A 2010 meta-analysis of 69 studies over 50 years found that in general, children whose mothers worked when they were young had no major learning, behavior or social problems, and tended to be high achievers in school and have less depression and anxiety.”[/quote]

Uhmm…do you want to share the rest of that 2010 analysis?

“ ...moderator analyses indicated that early maternal employment was associated with beneficial child outcomes when families were at risk socioeconomically, particularly in the context of families with single parents and on welfare; these findings support the compensatory hypothesis of employment for these families (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).…

…. In contrast, other analyses indicated that employment was associated with negative child outcomes when families were not at risk financially (i.e., when families were middle or upper-middle class); these findings support the lost-resources hypothesis for these types of families (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2003).”
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You are both cherry-picking academic literature that neither of you either fully understand. Neither of you have read or understand the source studies (which are often poorly designed with barely-sufficient or insufficient statistical structure).

There is no bulk of good, well-designed studies that is going to give you incontrovertible evidence that your pre-decided personal biases on SAH vs WOH are the right ones to hold. You both sound silly claiming that science supports your positions. It simply doesn’t. [/quote]

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