Case Study: Single Parenting

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Ann could not manage time effectively because of excessive number of daily tasks, and 24 hours’ time limit. Due to her husband’s extremely busy work schedule, they also cannot spend enough and consistent time together. His schedule also force her to accomplish all household duties by herself like single parent: “His [my husband’s] participation in the family is less than ideal. There’s a lot of single parenting going on which wasn’t really what I signed up for when I got married [laughing] and was like I don’t want to do this on my own I’m gonna have babies with someone who I’m married to. Yeah I’m still single parenting.” Since this is not realistic expectation from one person, she cannot complete all family work by herself and wants help …show more content…

Because her new assistantship is unfulfilling, more demanding and less flexible than previous one. Additionally, while she normally works 20 hours per week, that time increases to 30 hours together with commuting time. All those factors make her conflicted and feeling guilty. In other words, assistantship complicates life and takes time from her day she could be devoting to something else. So, even if she does not want, she was about to give a radical decision due to get rid of student life/family life conflict, spend more time with her children, and accomplish household …show more content…

She is doing all household duties by herself without any help by her husband. And this vast majority of family responsibilities impact her time for other responsibilities such as school works. While it was almost impossible the accomplish these high expectations in a day, it was even harder together with school work for a person. Current roles in her family life between Ann and her husband are very traditional. While she is taking care of household duties and most parenting, her husband just earns money: “This is the way it is and I get lots of benefits from the money he makes, but I’m doing it basically on my own.” Although she has benefits from husband’s salary, this very traditional gender roles lead to unrealistic expectations and loads more responsibilities of her. On that matter, she cannot spend quality time with her husband due to completing excessive amount of household tasks which she is

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