By Pregnancy, Birth and Baby Staff
Your cultural background can affect how you parent, how you understand your children and how you teach them. When people from different cultures become parents, it is normal for them to have different opinions about how to raise children.
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A career time out to stay home with your kids might be tempting, but there’s a lot to consider before you give notice.
Mothers earn 3% per hour less for each child they have compared with women working in similar jobs who do not have children, say researchers.
It’s called emotional labor. And mothers have a lot of it.
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'They still hold the mental burden of the household even if others share in the physical work and this mental burden can take a toll,' says report's author.
When it comes to household responsibilities, women perform far more cognitive and emotional labour than men. Why is this, and is there anything we can do about it?
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Emotional labor is the invisible work in families, disproportionately by moms.
We live in a culture where in many families, the father is still the primary breadwinner. Even when mothers work outside the home, the work of maintaining the home also falls largely to them. But typical gender roles are not feeling so typical.