...Running Header: Working vs. Stay Home Mothers 1 Research Paper Working vs. Stay Home Mothers Joseph Ochoa Com/172 September 18, 2012 Brenda Caine WORKING VS. STAY HOME MOTHERS 2 Children have such an amazing connection with their mothers, it is usually the first word they learn and the name they scream when they are hurt. Working mothers have stormed into the business world at full force in the last 20 years. This has had an impact on the children today, although mothers who stay home have more one on one time with their kids. According to Youngberg, “One significant, reoccurring issue specifically related to a mother’s decision of whether to be active in the workforce or be a stay-at-home mother involves the cognitive effects such a decision might have on children” (2011). While Children get as much attention at daycare as they would at home, stay at home mothers have a bigger impact than working moms. Mothers who work and mothers who stay home have the same busy lifestyle. Mothers need to get groceries, get the kids to baseball practice and better have a husband who is splitting the responsibilities to help take off the pressure. Mothers who work start taking their children to daycare at the young age of six to eight weeks. Heidi Brennan said on the Dr. Phil show “Children do not do well with large separations at a time” (Stay-At-Home Moms Vs. Working Moms, 2012). Because of the...
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...feel that it’s emasculating for men to have to stay at home. 2. How many women are current CEO’s of Fortune 500 companies? 18 3. What percentage of wives earns more money than their husbands? 23% 4. What does the term “stigma” mean? What stigmas are at place in society for stay-at-home dads? Why do you think this is? Stigma is negative societal view towards something not commonly accepted. Some stigmas for stay-a-home dads were that they are lazy freeloaders who mooch off of the wife’s income. 5. What does the term “marry down” refer to? Why might women in powerful workplace positions find this advantageous? Is there anything problematic about this suggestion? “Marrying down” refers to someone who marries another person who has a lower income. This can be advantageous for women because they still have the opportunity to be the breadwinner but the problematic part about it is that the husband will still have to quit his career in order to a stay-at-home dad. 6. Describe interactions between the stay-at-home dads in the article and stay-at-home moms. Does their reaction to stay-at-home dads surprise you? The reactions don’t surprise me because everyone has grown up with some idea of what roles are for what gender so with the change in traditional gender roles comes controversy and confusion. 7. Why would couples choose to have a stay-at-home parent instead of daycare? Would these couples benefit better if both parents worked and the children were...
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...Daycare: Good or Bad? Hope Plummer English 122: English Composition 2 Instructor Larry Holden 3/02/2014 Daycare: Good or Bad? In this day and age, more women are becoming more active in the workplace which forces them to leave their children in a daycare atmosphere. The first few years of a child's life are detrimental to their development. In general, traditional daycare settings do not have a reputation for being emotionally healthy, so we must ask ourselves the question, is public daycare worth the risks? In this paper, I will provide compelling examples as to why I believe public daycare settings are unhealthy for positive cognitive and social development as well as my suggestions for what type of childcare would be healthier. One of the reasons parents opt to keep their children out of daycare is due to the amount of germs their child will get exposed to on a daily basis. 'Children in day care centers are more likely to catch an infection than kids who do not attend day care. Children who go to day care are often around other kids who may be sick.'(Kaneshiro, 2012) This is partly due to the high number of children in each classroom and caregivers not using the proper sanitary actions necessary with high volumes of children. There are simply too many children to look after. This leaves many classes understaffed. I personally worked at a daycare for a decent amount of time and I can vouch for that fact firsthand. There...
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...policy of paid leave for child care however, each state has different requirements. Currently the United States falls well short of these practices. They do not require companies to provide any paid leave for new parents. Tennessee employers that have eight or more workers must grant female employees sixteen paid weeks leave for child birth. In California, Hawaii, and New Jersey employees who are pregnant receive partial wage replacement in the form of temporary disability insurance benefits for the weeks they are absent (HR specialty, 2013). European countries have the longest parental leave regulations in the world. In Czech Republic it is standard that mothers stay home for 3 years after a child’s birth. For this entire time, mothers are supported by the state. I can’t imagine getting paid to sit at home and take care of my child. Think of how lucky those parents are getting to see the children grow up doing all the first things in life. Sweden provides working parents with sixteen months paid leave per child at eighty percent pay rate (Karen, Sternheimer, 2010). Parents can take an eighteen month job protected parental leave with benefits allowed to be shared by parents and applied to full time or part time work. In the United Kingdom, female employees are entitled to fifty-two weeks of maternity leave with the first eighteen being paid (citation, 2013). In France, the females receive sixteen weeks at one hundred percent pay. That would be amazing to be...
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...women are working outside of the homes and are not able to take care of the children on a full time bases. When the parents are unable to tend to their children, they have to seek help from an outside source. Years ago, it was natural for the mother of the children to stay at home and care for them while the father goes to work. But time has changed and there is a major increase in single parenting than before. Even in two parent homes, the mother has to work in order to maintain the house hold and this is why non parental child care comes in. Before I can address the different types of non parental child care, I must first explain what non parental child care is. As stated in chapter five of Child, Family, School, Community it states that non parental child care is also known as day care is care given to children by persons other than parents during the parts of the day when parents are absent. This process can start as early as the child being an infant and extend into school years. It also states in the chapter that 70% of children ages 0 to 6, not yet in kindergarten are in child care for all or part of the day. There are three types of non parental child care that I will discuss, and the influences it can have on a child. One type of non parental child care that is most familiar to families is day care centers. Many families have to rely on non family members to care for their children and they send them to day care centers. Daycare is an environment where children...
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...for their child. Whether it’s home care or daycare the deciding factors could be finances, family or career. Daycare is expensive, the average cost per year in Ohio is $8482 in 2012. Parents often have to choose whether to continue their career once having a child or place the child in daycare. Many households are unable to have only one parent bring in income. The cost of living is continually increasing. There are programs that are available to help cover the cost of child care. With the available program through the state, the parents have to apply and met guideline of poverty. If these guidelines are meet then the parents have a pre-approved list...
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...College I chose topic three which is asking different parents about their opinions and option for childcare for their children. All three parents chose different avenues when it came to the care of their child/ children. Certain circumstances dictated why they chose these different options for childcare. Of the options there was a stay at home mother, a student who left her child with relatives, and lastly a couple who chose daycare for their small children. All three options can be good outsources for the parents as well as the children , when the environment is set up for teaching, parent involvement, and good influence for how the child or children behave and are being treated. The stay at home mother of a twenty three month old baby boy, she stated that before the birth of her child and her and her husband discussed the option of her being a stay at home mother for safety reasons, as well as her wanting to really experience motherhood with this being her first child. When asked how this influenced their child’s motor development and language skills they both felt that with her being home she was able to devote all her time to their son. She also stated that when it came time to encourage him to crawl and also to grasp things, she would get on the floor with him, put his hands and feet in the crawling position. She would also entice and or motivate him by putting things in front of him like toys or food to help him want to crawl. This was an effort...
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...Federally Funded Daycares Breanna Young Virginia College Online . Federally Funded Daycares Would it not be nice to not have to worry about making enough money to cover daycare costs? There would be a huge impact on both parents and children. For the parents, there would be less stress and more income, and for the children there are educational, social, and physical benefits. There would also be a need for more daycare facilities that have quality employees and that offer a federal curriculum. It will affect the economy as well, by offering more jobs and there is more money in the parent’s wallet to spend. Federally funded daycares should be authorized because they can have a huge impact on low income parents. One reason federally funded daycares should be authorized is the impact it would have on parents. One example is less stress on the parents. Stress can cause a lot of problems like irritability, insomnia, headaches, and weight gain. With federally funded daycares initiated, it would lower the stress levels and therefore help with health issues. Another example is more available money in each parent’s income. There would be more available money in the parents pockets each month to pay other bills or get groceries so that families will not have to depend on food stamps and WIC. With federally funded daycares authorized it could significantly improve the overall health of many individual. People would no longer have to stress about finances every day and could live...
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...Do you want smarter people in our society? Many schools start late and there are not a lot of benefits for that. If school starts at 8:00 AM there is time for more extracurricular activities and time to play outside, which makes kids smarter and healthier. You can be tired if school starts late, and outside will be even more dangerous. If somebody stays up too late, from staying at school too long, there will be a serious loss of sleep and they will be very tired in the morning. If kids are tired in the morning, they may not be as sharp in the morning, and this could lead to worse grades. If schools start later, it will be dark when you come back and it will be dangerous for kids walking home as they cannot see anything. Kids can get hurt...
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...law, and welfare programs. (Jacobson) The question to be explored with this policy is should both men and women have a more family wok environment that would include paid and unpaid family leave and either a child care program at work or be subsidized for daycare? Another question is what should the regulations to increase the minimum wage law? The last question is how to regulate welfare programs and government run programs to subsidize income? This will take you through today’s regulations for these policies and past regulations for the policies and regulations stated. II. Analysis of the Problem Many low-income workers lack connections to receive information about work support, the employer has the potential to become the means by which eligible individuals gain information about benefits available to them. Many low-income workers will stay at work because they have to pay the bills. There is assistance for daycare that they may not know about. Could you image put a newborn baby in daycare and pay over a thousand a month? That is more than some people’s paycheck. Employers know what they pay their individual workers, but do not necessarily know about family composition, whether there is another worker in the home, or whether the worker receives health insurance through a spouse or other family member. Thus, an employer may...
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...goal is to properly convince the lender or investor that opening up my own daycare center is more than just a dream and that I am very passionate about opening up this business and making it a very profitable one. I feel that I have a firm grasp of how to properly run a daycare center, the accounting practices that impact a daycare center as well as the controls needed to safeguard assets to ensure that we stay in compliance and adhere to all regulations set forth. My plan is to start this business inside my home with the name of “Babies & Beyond” located in Somerset, New Jersey, see how well I do, and then perhaps look to expand and build a complete center one day. You are an Entrepreneur! 1. Describe the type of business you have created including: A daycare center is a place for parents to drop their children off with ease and comfort knowing that their money is going to good use to keep their children safe while also providing the children with a curriculum for learning. Daycare programs provide supplementary childcare on a regular basis inside and outside of a child's home and are administered by adults other than the child's parents (Thomas, 2014). a. The product or service, and general staffing plan. The overall mission for Babies & Beyond daycare is to provide a safe, affordable and high quality place for children. Babies & Beyond daycare provides an at home program for...
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...example of a segment in the market is a veterinarian. When your pet is sick, you take it to be treated. The overarching industry also includes buying pets. Since the pet care industry is very broad, and dominated by PetCo and PetSmart, we are focusing on the niche daycare (boarding) segment of the industry. The daycare industry focuses on providing supervision, companionship, and exercise services for a consumer's pet while away. In 2011, 63.2% of pet owners considered their pets to be family members according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.5 The demand for quality care of animals while the “parents” are away is incredibly high. The pet daycare industry provides the supervision and interaction that comforts pet-owners during either a long-term, short-term, or even daily stay. The main reasons pets are dropped off at a daycare are either due to vacations or daily jobs that take owners away from pets. Very often in this industry a pet daycare facility will offer other pet services such as grooming, pet food sales, and pet supply sales as add-ons to the primary service of boarding; however, this makes up a small percentage of total revenue. Industry specific statistics and details re: pet daycare and boarding The overall pet care industry was worth $55.72 billion in 2013 and is estimated to be $58.51 billion in 20141. It has a breakdown of five different niche categories: food (22.62B), supplies/OTC medicine (13.72B), vet care ($15.25B), live animal purchases...
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...Business Expansion Ciara A. Carter-Rhodes Western Governor’s University 1. Viability of product Children of God’s Daycare originally began in the home of the owner Claudette Douglas over a decade ago. Mrs. Douglas founded the idea to expand her dream of taking care of the needs of the community by establishing a day care center versus home child care. This personal aspiration became a reality when Class A licensing permits were established, a site chosen, and Children of God daycare was open for business in June 2011(http://www.dss.state.la.us.) This company thrives on the notion that the early stages in a child’s life are very important to their growth and development. Choosing a good child day care center is vital as more parents in today’s world have employment demands and require suitable day care centers for their children. Children of God’s daycare is providing learning programs and playtime for your child, along with a safe and healthy environment. At present, this business does not have an online presence nor strategy to strategically place them at a better advantage within the day care community. All inquiries from parents in the community are based upon location of daycare site, word of mouth, and flyer handouts within the community. Despite not having an online presence, this company would like to strengthen and grow their sales by acquiring their target audience of working...
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...| DAY CARE CENTERS | | | | | | Table of Contents Executive Summary 2 Introduction: 2 Thesis Statement: 4 Child Care Business 4 For-profit day care 5 Non-profit day care 5 Social Effects: 6 Developmental Skills: 7 Physical Skills: 8 Educational and Behavioral Effects: 8 Social problems and resolve: 9 Staff 9 Quality 10 Data 12 Pros and Cons Compared in Different Child Care Setup 16 Conclusion: 19 Works Cited 21 Executive Summary Many of the children in America and other economically developed nations are taken care by individuals who are neither their legal guardians nor their school instructors. Such organizations play a very important role in the overall development of the child, firstly they allow the parents to earn money for child’s future or in case of a single parent it allows the opportunity of employment to the parent, secondly it also helps in the development of the children by intervening in his normal course of study in his early years of studies, this mostly helps the children who are differently abled. This report brings out what is good for the development of the children, what a child care is all about and what is the viability of such an institutions? The basic motive of this paper is to bring out the positive and negative aspects of child care centres. Here, we give an outline of the quantity of kids being taken as subjects for our study; portray hypothesis and proof about the private's way kid consideration...
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...names and some details have been changed for legal reasons. Home Health-care is a non-for-profit organization that focuses on family members in need of assistance with health-care, education awareness and daycare assistance. The services are provided through two of their subsidiaries, Mom‟s Daycare and Healthy For You. Home Health-care who owns and operates both organization functions as a corporate office. Home Health-care has identified a need for both its subsidiaries, Mom‟s Daycare and Healthy for You to consolidate their operations and mission. The goal is to release Home Health-care of total financial obligation in the existing structure of these two affiliates; while fostering the affiliates into an organization that may thrive. Both subsidiaries were in the decline stage of their business. Due to the change of the economy and society, patient flow and customers were declining resulting in a loss of revenue. Because of the decline, Home Health-care has been obligated to cover lost earnings and payroll. The goal is to enhance the existing two affiliate‟s structure into an organization that will achieve both vision and mission, enhance productivity efficiency, and becoming fiscally responsible. The Administrative and Resource Development Consolidation will consist of the reorganization of the board of directors, management and administrative offices both entities, starting with an interim organization. Mom‟s Daycare and Healthy for You board members were asked to vote on...
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