up, many women enter the work force and feel the pressure to remain, even after having children, in order to achieve additional income support for the family in an age when the middle class wage is declining, making a second income a necessity.
Most educated young men are of the opinion that it would be unfair of them to assume a role of sole financial responsibility for their families, most seek to marry young women who will be equal financial partners. This leaves a silent majority of children (who have no voice in the matter) at home alone, in care of non-maternal others or in day-care outside of the home before their entrance into school. Irregardless, working women feel pressure to leave their children once they have them for fear of promotion loss, job loss threat, or just being set back so severely that they will never achieve what career prospects were offered them before they became pregnant. The latter see
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