working moms are less depressed than stay-at-home counterparts

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  1. Bender

    Bender New Member

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    Trying to Be 'Supermom' Can Raise Risk for Depression
    http://health.usnews.com/health-new...rmom-can-raise-risk-for-depression_print.html

    It makes sense to me just based on the idea that people with jobs are going to be less depressed than people who are unemployed.
     
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    PatrickT Well-Known Member

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    So, Bender, by your definition, stay-at-home moms are "unemployed"?
     
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    Bender New Member

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    They're either that or they're unpaid maids.
     
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    PatrickT Well-Known Member

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    Obviously, you've never been married.
     
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    Wolverine New Member Past Donor

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    Staying at home all day would be a living hell.

    I would be depressed after two days.
     
  6. Bender

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    I'm not sure what marriage has to do with employment.
    You're aware people who are married can be unemployed, correct?
     
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    Just a simple question here... Are school teachers and daycare workers "unemployed" or "unpaid maids," or are they employed?
     
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    That really depends on the womans social life. If you stay home 24/7 yes, you are asking to be midly depressed and feel isolated. I however always got together with friends, went to the gym, did play dates etc. I've done both and I can honestly say I'm more content when I'm not working. I noticed when I first started working, I still was doing it all. I thought my hubby could read my mind and help pick up the slack. I'd come home around dinner time, and nothing was taken out or started. After several months of trying to do it all, i finally spoke up and told him he needed to help more, which he did. Now I only work part-time during the day and my kids are in school. Best of both worlds!
     
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    Very true. My wife stayed home for 2 years with each of our kids. She always said the secret to being a stay-at-home-mom successfully was not to stay at home.

    She joined the local chapter of MOMS Club, an international group for mostly stay-at-home moms, and before she knew it we had friends with same-age kids, playgroups one morning a week, meetings, activities, and all kinds of stuff.
     
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    Til the Last Drop Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Working moms are also less likely to be flirting with other dudes all day long on the internet. LOL. Husbands are wishing they were just watching soaps and Oprah these days.
     
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    Teacher = Job, so yes, they're employed.
     
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    So caring for and teaching and inspiring your own kids = not a job.
    Caring for and teaching and inspiring someone else's kids = a job.

    Got it.
     
  13. Bender

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    I didn't say that. A teacher who has their child in her classroom still has a job.
    It's quite silly to call something a job based on what a person is doing rather than based on if they're getting a paycheck.
     
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    I think that its futile to group all women in to one catagory and say working moms or stay at home moms are happier. Being one or the other is only a very small percentage of what determines a womans satisfaction with life? How is her marrige, is she a single mom, is she having merital problems, does she have a good network of friends and family helping, is she doing it all on her own??? Simply defining hapiness by being a stay at hom mom, or a working mom fails to paint the whole picture, and the only purpose of this article is to disparage women with certain values and make them feel inferior.

    My personal opinion, is that if more women stayed home and took care of the kids, the better our society would be. Or at least one of the two parents were able to stay at home to raise the kids. Its amazing how people wont let a stranger drive their car, but dont have a problem letting them raise their kids. That's the real problem.
     
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