Moms at home, dads at work

Moms at home, dads at work

The majority of kids I knew grew up in so-called “traditional families,” with the men going to work each day, and the mothers staying home. Not all women, however, found full-time homemaking an ideal way of life. In my family, yes, the men left for work at 8 a.m. and returned home at 5:30 p.m. However, my mother also worked because she had no interest in clubs, cards, or sewing circles. From my junior high school years through the end of college…