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The fascination with Sarah Palin comes not only from her unexpected rise, but also from the fact that she is a mother of five, with one child under a year old. While Palin seeks the vice presidency, one of the most demanding jobs on Earth, more than 40 million American moms also balance jobs with motherhood. Do working moms have the best of both worlds, or are they potentially neglecting their children's best interests?
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Children’s Physical Health Suffers When Mothers are Absent
A Rebuttal
The main point of the argument is that the child’s health is comprised due to the mother working outside the home. First of all, in the argument, the responsibility is put on the mother to manage her child’s sleeping and eating schedule, which is certainly a job that any person who cares for the child can do. It is an obvious hasty generalization that “…many wake their children up in the morning…and keep them up at night…the result is sleep deprivation”. Although it may be true that this occasionally happens, the health and well-being of a child is most certainly a priority for a mother, thus she would not force her schedule upon her child to result in a medical condition. The following argument addresses the rising obesity of children, where a cause and effect fallacy is made. It is mentioned that children have become overweight due to mothers entering the workforce. This association cannot be made, though, because there is no evidence to support that claim. Obesity in children has risen for many different reasons and cannot be associated to just the rise of mothers in the workforce. It is possible that all children, regardless of the status of their mothers in the workforce, are eating excessive amounts of prepared food and watching television.
- Natalie Marie
February 8, 2009 9:59AM
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