Career Counseling, Parenting — oh my goodness, yet another study on moms who work vs. moms who stay at home! I have seen so many of these over the last 30 years, I just can’t believe somebody is still paying for them. Yes, the kids turn out fine when moms work, don’t worry, even better than fine, apparently. Working moms parenting skills are resulting in healthy children.
“A Harvard researcher studied the happiness of kids of working moms compared to stay-at-home moms. She found they end up just as happy as adults as the children of moms who stayed home.”
“Kids of stay-at-home moms grow up to be happy, too. All told, it’s not better or worse for your child’s eventual happiness if you work or not.”
“These recent results are part of a larger study that McGinn has been conducting about how working motherhood affects children. McGinn and her research team compared two international surveys that were conducted over the course of 10 years. 100,000 men and women across 29 countries participated and answered questions about the effects of working moms on their adult children.”
“In 2015, she released the first wave of results that found daughters of working moms tend to make more money as adults. McGinn’s survey found daughters of employed moms earned an average of $1,880 more per year than daughters of full-time work-from-home moms.”
“Moms who work positively impact their sons, too. The sons of working moms tend to have more equal gender views, tend to marry partners who also work and spend an extra 50 minutes each week caring for family members.”
“In the surveys, both daughters and sons were asked about their overall life satisfaction. Whether their moms stayed at home or worked, all reported being just as happy. Yet women are still socialized to believe they are hurting their children by going to work. McGinn says she hopes these latest finding will help ease that guilt.”
Counseling with Elaine Korngold
Career counseling helps you understand yourself and the world of work and make satisfying career, educational, and life decisions. I can help you make smart choices for your present and future, so that you are engaged in your chosen career field and compensated in a way that is commensurate with the work you do.
While issues involving your work will likely come up during personal counseling, personal and career counseling are really two different types of counseling. Personal counseling is designed to treat a specific issue (e.g., anxiety, loneliness, relationship troubles), whereas career counseling is designed specifically to focus on work and career development. We can work together to determine which type of counseling would be most helpful for you at this point.
In my private practice, I help working moms process their feelings about parenting, work, and home life, and come to a better emotional place without carrying the burdens of guilt or external expectations. Contact me to learn more.