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How Working Mothers Handle Life: Pew Study

First Posted: 12/01/09 05:12 AM ET Updated: 11/17/11 09:02 AM ET

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Pew Social & Demographic Trends:

Working mothers in particular are ambivalent about whether full-time work is the best thing for them or their children; they feel the tug of family much more acutely than do working fathers. As a result, most working mothers find themselves in a situation that they say is less than ideal.

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Working mothers in particular are ambivalent about whether full-time work is the best thing for them or their children; they feel the tug of family much more acutely than do working fathers. As a resu...
Working mothers in particular are ambivalent about whether full-time work is the best thing for them or their children; they feel the tug of family much more acutely than do working fathers. As a resu...
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1060 Fans
09:42 PM on 10/01/2009
Remember the lady from the "Calgon take me away" commercials from the 60's?

The lady in the kitchen with the apron with goo all over it...the phone's ringing, the oven timer's going off, the doorbell's ringing, the baby's in the high chair screaming, the sauce is boiling over, the tea kettle is screaming, and the mother throws her hands up and screams: "Calgon, take me away!"

Next thing you see is the nice lady soaking in a bubble bath.

I'm like that lady, only with 5 kids, and a full-time business. (And no bubble bath)
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07:25 PM on 10/01/2009
"pew study"

is tht a dirty diaper crack?
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