Women Were Happier Working at Home? This Just Doesn't Feel Right

In this generation where 1 out of 2 first time marriages end up in divorce, a women needs to work to protect herself. What will she do if her husband runs off with a younger women leaving her home with 3 kids? The courts today rarely give a women alimony. Many women only get child support which if you are lucky will pay for groceries. The single women is forced to do it all and it is a rare man that will step in to marry her unless she has a good income of her own. There really is no way to step back in time because in society today divorce is well accepted. The new younger women is not looked down upon and the 50+ older man with a new baby is completely accepted. There are more and more single older mothers every day struggling.

The best advice we can give our daughters is to put their career first before her husband and children. Relationships are rarely balanced. The person that was able to put their career first will move up the path leaving the other person who cared for the home and children well behind. Usually that is us women who were brought up to put everyone else first. Our daughters need to divorce that concept. Maybe that is what it will take before society becomes concern with the divorce rate and the struggling single older mothers. Once us women step out of the picture as the main caregivers, society

will wake up and appreciate motherhood again. But if we continue to do it all, and look the other way when we see other single mothers struggling financially the cycle will never change.

Very concerned of FL 12:50AM June 03, 2009