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Mothers And Child Care 1950-2000

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Ariel Diane Delos Santos
Professor George Jarrett
History 103
Cerritos College

Term Paper: Mothers, Work, and Child Care 1950-2000 Americans changed their opinion about mothers, work, and childcare over the years from 1950 to 2000 gradually from mothers’ role was to stay at home and take care of the families’ domestic needs to more Americans agreed that it was acceptable and the norm that mothers worked outside the home, women’s careers were just as important, fathers were expected to help with childcare and the families’ domestic needs, and that families used and needed childcare services. Based on reading different sources from the Capstone chapter of Going to the Source, there was a big difference in Americans’ opinions about working mothers …show more content…

Based on the “American Women: Report of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women” in 1963, working women were an important part of the labor force and the economy. Women were still expected to fulfill their responsibilities as mothers and at the same time be able to fulfill the demands of their jobs so there was a need to expand community services and resources that helped families specifically childcare services. A position paper by the National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) in 1969 stated that “Developmental child care services are a right of children, parents, and the community at large, requiring immediate reallocation of national resources.” The opinions of Americans about mothers’ role as the only caregivers for their children was changing and it was shifting towards being a shared responsibility of the parents and the community by having child care services made available. Even if the bulk of the responsibility was still placed on mothers, it was starting to be expected for fathers to help and child care services were seen as a necessity instead of something harmful to the children’s growth and development. N.O.W. advocated that fathers should share equal responsibility in raising children and that men need to be …show more content…

Phyllis Schlafly in her report “What’s Wrong with ‘Equal Rights’ for Women?” in 1972, said that men and women were different because “women have babies and men don’t.” According to Schlafly, American women were held on a higher class because they bore children and that American society recognized the importance of that. Women were expected to bear and take care of the domestic needs of the family while their husbands take care of them and the children by providing financially. Having equal rights for women was lower than what women already had according to

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