Should both parents work

             Should Both Parents Work When They Have Small Children
             Amy Holzman used to kiss her husband and son goodbye, and head off to her high-powered job as a lawyer with her mind at ease. That was before her husband finished school and returned to work, and before she had a second child this year. Holzman, thirty two now works from her home in Manhattan, which has eased the strain a little. She has to juggle trips to the park, visits to the doctors' office, and keep up with her meetings with clients.
             The University of Michigan's Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life reports that the arrival of a second child is a pivotal point for many dual career couples, and this is upsetting their careful balance of work and home. The stresses can multiply exponentially, fueled by the new complexities in the family and the varied demands of two children and two jobs. "It's a big struggle to make the pieces come together," says author Rebecca Upton, who interviewed twenty five dual earning couples with two kids for the study, which she presented last month at the American Anthropological Association meeting in San Francisco. As Joan Williams; director of the Program on Gender, Work, and Family at American University in Washington D.C., puts it, "The whole situation goes tilt." (Schultz, 2000, pg 68)
             Parents struggle to balance work, and family life. Most parents today are trying to juggle work and family, and many feel the children are being neglected of their family time. According to Dr. Marilyn Hein's; pediatrician and parenting specialist who spoke at Casa de los Ninos recently as part of the 25th anniversary lecture series, the problem is not that women are working, "The problem is that we live in a nation whose leaders pretend that we're back in another era," Hein's said. Since the 1960's many demographic changes in beliefs about the family have come about. Wi...

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