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APA Writing Assignment

APA Written Assignment Erin Fong

Working Moms: Happy or Haggard? – http://helping.apa.org/work/workmom.html

As a high school student who is dependent on my mom for many things, the article’s title about the state of working moms appealed to my curiosity. My mom is now retired, but I’m sure she went through a stressful period of being a working mom, which I now realize I was unaware of.
This article has really broadened my perspective about working moms. I have always known that having to work a full time job as well as taking care of a family is no easy task, but I never knew what an impact it could have on the mom. Typically, in households with no children, women work the same amount of hours as men but once a child enters the household, the mom has an increased amount of work. While men are able to relax after their stressful time at work, women do not receive that pleasure of relaxing due to taking care of the fami...

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