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This 5 page paper summarizes 6 articles dealing with contemporary family issues such as divorce, parenting and parental influence. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Discussion The first article is The mommy tax. The article itself is a critique of Ann Crittendens book The Price of motherhood: why motherhood is the most important - and
least valued - job in America. The book, writes critic Cathy Young, "mostly serves the same old left-wing feminist wine in new pro-motherhood bottles" (Young, 2001, p. 27). Crittenden
concedes something that is very important to our understanding of womens failure to advance: "Today, gender disparities in pay and advancement are primarily due not to discrimination but to womens
family roles" (Young, 2001, p. 27). Crittenden believes that the societal expectations for women to remain in the home and take care of the children is whats blocking their success
and climb to the highest echelons of corporate America. Crittenden argues that no matter what route women take, "whether they pursue an uninterrupted career, temporarily scale down their labor force
involvement, or devote themselves entirely to child-rearing-[they] deserve far more social support than they are getting" (Young, 2001, p. 27). Crittenden would like to see such things as "a years
paid leave after the birth of each child, [and] part-time work with full benefits" though she knows such things will be seen as "welfare statism" and acknowledges they will probably
never been enacted (Young, 2001, p. 27). Young, predictably, castigates Crittenden, saying that what she is proposing is "entitlement masquerading as rights, female chauvinism posing as anti-sexism, and a
vast expansion of government power under the guise of empowering women" (Young, 2001, p. 27). Young has her own agenda, as she is the author of a book that is
diametrically opposed to Crittendens thinking. In short, what Crittenden is proposing, is an entirely new way of looking at womens work, and giving it the value it deserves. The second
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