Week 8

Belkin's essay was about how many times women will stop chasing a job or advancement in a job to raise a family.  From what I read there were a couple different sides but mostly people agreeing with what she said.  Some people were upset that it tends to always be the women who stay home and take care of the family and not the men.  Others who were probably mom's themselves were agreeing with what Belkin said and agreed and enjoyed being the one's who stayed home and took care of their children.  Their was one response where a women basically said that she would love to stop working to raise her family but due to finances she could not be a stay at home mother.  My story is a little bit on both sides of the argument.  My mother was a nurse and my father was a doctor when I was born.  I was the third and final child in my family.  My mother worked until I was born and both of my sisters were fairly young so she decided to be a stay at home mom because my father made enough money to support us.  When I asked her how she felt about this she said she loved every minute of it and would not have wanted it any other way.  I was to young to realize what sacrifice she had made for our family.  She was a stay at home mom until I got to the third grade and I was now old enough to pretty much take care of myself.  I have been cooking my own food and doing laundry since I was in 1st grade so I pretty much knew how to take care of the little things for myself.  In 3rd grade my mother got a job at a karate school teaching kickboxing ( that was her and the rest of my family's sport, and she was really good at it).  This took up most of her time and I soon only saw her in the morning when she would take me to school because she taught classes till 11 at night and I was always in bed by then at that age.  I never really liked that because I seriously only saw my mom maybe a couple of hours a week.  As I got older my mom eventually became a dermatologist and then became a lawyer, so the whole women doing a certain job thing has never really attained to her.  I was old enough by this time for her being gone at the time to not bother me anymore, but I always wish I could of seen more of her when I was growing up through my childhood.