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An article discusses five changes that have happened within motherhood over time. Here are the basics:
1. More moms work outside the home… 2. … But they also spend more time with their kids 3. Motherhood has been privatized 4. Most people like moms more now … 5. … Except other moms
#2 from the list above seems odd to me. Here is the explanation:
Throughout most of the 20th century, "moms really spent very little time with their kids, because there were so many things they had to do around the home," Coontz told LiveScience. Today, mothers spend less time on housework and spend less time being alone or engaging with their communities in favor of spending that extra time with their kids, she said.
While household chores have inevitably become streamlined in today's society, doesn't it seem like common sense that mothers - back in the 1950s - would have had their children nearby when doing such work? A mother washing clothes, or dusting, or sweeping, for example, would have been near her child when doing such things. Perhaps the children did not have their mothers' undivided attention, but how much does that take place today? Television, internet, posting messages on social media - all of this would likewise take attention away from children in the modern world. So I'm not sure that #2 is as good in the scheme of things as the list would have us believe.
