Analysis Of Mommy Wars

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Mommy Wars A debate has been raging for years over the necessity for, mother’s duties, which has been so much so that it is termed “Mommy Wars”. The core of “Mommy Wars” is about mothers should wave rights of studying and working to take care of children at home and be a housewife. Traditionally, mothers must be a full-time mother when they raise a baby. However, by the development of society and the movements for women’s rights, this issue has been increasingly a hot topic for the discussion. For this reason, Louise Story interviewed students and faculties at Yale University. New York Times published the report of the survey. On this report, Story compares and analyzes the data that she collects from interviews and E-mails. Story (2005) …show more content…

In academic fields, “many” means an unknown quantity and will mislead the readers into the author’s personal perspectives. In Story’s article, readers can find “many” not only in personal statements but also in the statistical data. Therefore, readers will be unconsciously influenced and agree that the best choice for mothers is staying at home if Shafer doesn’t point the issue. What’s more, Shafer also accuses Story spend a lot to her daughter to Yale University. Accordingly, the purpose of the article is suspect. Even if there will be more professors’ statements and database without the exact number, readers cannot tend to one …show more content…

The first one is interviewee. The people she interviewed are her friends and classmates which may already be influenced by Story’s personal ideas and fabricate the answers to help her achieve some unknown goals that against the statistic roles. In addition, if readers put themselves in Story’s shoes and combine the idea that Shafer mentions Story’s daughter is studying at Yale University, it’s not difficult to get the answer. To reduce competition. The second one is the words. The words she chooses to describe this issue with her personal opinions and biases, such as “of course” and “not likely”, which will be unconsciously influenced readers. For another, “Mommy Wars” is not a hard question to address, because it is not a real war. In other words, time management and duties distribution are the keys to break the roles. On one hand, how to balance the time with families and works will determine how effective you are. For example, most of mothers from the middle class families in China are full time employees. There is no choice for them. Because the single income family will be destroyed by the increasing price and competition. Hence, mothers in China have to work as men as does. On the other hand, an intelligent mother knows how to share duties with her husband. Raising a baby is a duty not only to a mother but also to a father. Fathers can do some easy housework if they reduce time in watching endless sports and

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