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baedaebok · Joined: 27 Feb 2007 Location: Seoul, South Korea

With the the election of the new president, i wonder if the stay-at-home-mom culture will change (or, INHO, erode). The US is reaping the results of years of working moms & latch-key children. Was the Sandy Hook killer a latch-key kid who lashed out at his mom and where she worked? Did she run out of love & energy to show to her son b/c it was spent on her students?

Are working moms healthy for society? As more moms of young kids enter the workforce, will violence and hopelessness increase?

highstreet · Joined: 13 Nov 2010

Do the majority of Korean mothers stay at home? It seems as if most of them work.

nautilus · Joined: 26 Nov 2005 Location: Je jump, Tu jump, oui jump!

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 10:05 am Post subject:

First I do not think there is such a clear causal relationship between working mothers and the rise of violence in society from kids. In fact, I would love to see any such study trying to establish that link.

As for Korean women, many of my wife's female friends in Korea work. Most are married and have school age kids. It became an economic necessity to do so for many.

The status of women in the workforce needs to improve and it is part of this new president's mandate to do so. Will she actually do something and get results? Time will tell.

One thing is certain, this kind of change takes time, a lot of time.

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

Great.

Now we can all expect childhood obesity to rise (quicker than it already is), youth crime to go up, and the Korean education system to tank, just like the US has been doing for the last 30 years.

*Edit: I don't mean to imply it has to be the women who should be staying home. But someone should!

No_hite_pls · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:00 pm Post subject:

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PatrickGHBusan · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:27 pm Post subject:

Well where we live, the vast majority of kids go to a daycare during the day, hence no point in anyone staying home. Just saying times have changed. I assume a similar thing will happen (is happening) in Korea as women work more.

Hugo85 · Joined: 27 Aug 2010

As obesity has been on a steady rise in the USA, so has the amount of cankles one sees on a daily basis. I think that anyone who is a beta male in the USA must feel a profound rage at realizing that they will have no choice but to marry a cankle-weilding female.

The thing is that many things change over time and that you can't say "this has gone down/up and is therefore the cause for another terrible thing" for everything.

Newbie · Joined: 07 Feb 2003