Discuss " THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Marriage guilt: New agenda for workplace activism " Below
Posted by 6/14/2007 1:12:45 PM
People in troubled marriages may want to consider using Imago Therapy tools. In some cases, it works like a charm.
Posted by 6/14/2007 2:00:10 PM
I think the issue, best pointed out in the recently released book "The Feminine Mistake" by Leslie Bennetts, is that for women who don't work outside of the home and find themselves (perhaps through no doing of their own) in divorce court, they do themselves a disservice by having no means of support.
The author claims that when a woman stays at home with the kids, a divorce is less likely. I'd love to see where that came from because I'd be a rich girl for every one of my stay at home friends whose husbands left them for an "exciting, intelligent, ambitious" working woman. Prolly just like the one he married and had kids with, you know, before she quit her job. Why? It is said (not me sayin' it!) that working women have more to offer as spouses and as parents, in finding a balance between time with kids and adult relationships.
The Mommy Wars will never end and no one will ever be right. But the book referenced above presents a powerful and provocative argument.
Posted by 6/14/2007 2:01:06 PM
Sorry - in the second paragraph above, I mean the author of the Hook article, not the book.
Posted by 6/15/2007 8:44:33 AM
You make some excellent points. I agree, we're getting up in arms about the wrong thing...social science research shows us that strong, healthy marriages overcome all the variables...when we work on that, everything else falls into place. Check out the resource page on our non-profit website for great articles that support your desire to work on your marriage. www.thinkmarriage.org
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Discuss " THE BRAZEN CAREERIST- Marriage guilt: New agenda for workplace activism " Below
The author claims that when a woman stays at home with the kids, a divorce is less likely. I'd love to see where that came from because I'd be a rich girl for every one of my stay at home friends whose husbands left them for an "exciting, intelligent, ambitious" working woman. Prolly just like the one he married and had kids with, you know, before she quit her job. Why? It is said (not me sayin' it!) that working women have more to offer as spouses and as parents, in finding a balance between time with kids and adult relationships.
The Mommy Wars will never end and no one will ever be right. But the book referenced above presents a powerful and provocative argument.