Logician: as a working mother, your comment really hit home. With all due respect, how can you even suggest that a Jewish mother wouldnt want to be with her children?? Yes we may feel the need for a break, or that we cannot spend all day every day entertaining our children, but do you think we feel good about that? Dont you think we’d love to spend more time with our children? Dont you think we realize that the little bit of precious time we do get to spend with our children is taken advantage of to its fullest?
You ask if one really needs to work full time, well to answer for most of the working middle class moms – in order to keep our heads above water, yes. These days one income is not enough. What do we need the money for? Um, how about food, tuition, mortgage/rent, utilites, insurace…and yes the occasional vacation to spend more time with the family.
I’d say that there really isnt much of a choice…