Mothers Working - Oziel Juarez

Reading the last section "Mothering," in  Family Systems, Family Lives provides information on how social systems in our society just end up hurting mothers in the long run. The last couple of paragraphs explains how poor mothers are looked down upon for taking welfare, but also looked down upon because they "abandon" their children at daycares. This logic is incredibly flawed because the mother is getting looked down upon regardless. Let's say that she did want to have a baby, she had her child and now that she's trying to support her child, because her baby daddy left, she's being degraded because she doesn't spend as much time as they should with the child, whatever time that may be. I know from personal experience how going to daycare is a positive thing. Maybe it depends on what daycare institution one goes into, but me and my little sister went to a daycare for a couple of years while my mom worked from 8 till around 6 pm. We knew that our mother had to work and support us, we made friends and grew with our environment at the daycare. It was an experience that we grew with that was negative in any way. A good majority of rich parents have nannies who do the majority of parenting for them and they all have a stigma attached to them.