good old studies lol
I'm sure you could find studies stating the opposite too. that's kind of the problem with studies, you can basically prove whatever point you are trying to make.
I'm not saying SAHM's are better than working moms or anything like that but I don't put too much stock in anything "studies" say these days.
I'm sure you could find studies stating the opposite too. that's kind of the problem with studies, you can basically prove whatever point you are trying to make.
I'm not saying SAHM's are better than working moms or anything like that but I don't put too much stock in anything "studies" say these days.
I mean, if you measure 10000 high school seniors' SAT scores across the country and break them apart by working moms/stay at home moms, that's a pretty good study to analyze long term cognitive effects. If you look in a single neighborhood at 100 kids and base ability on grades in school, that's a pretty shoddy one.
The number one indicator of cognitive ability in children is financial level of the parents. Second is their parents' education level. (You could easily argue that those two are rather closely tied together). There are really cool studies conducted in just about any country you could have interest in documenting that moms going to work has zero effect on the kid's development. It's far, far more important that mom is happy and content in whatever path she chooses. If work is going to make her feel like she's abandoning her kid, or stress her out from trying to do it all, she shouldn't do it. If staying home is going to make her feel like she's not an asset or overwhelm her, she shouldn't do it. Kiddos pick up on that very quickly.