Full-time mom: What is it?

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Most mothers are full-time, whether they work outside the home or not. Before the 1960s, most mothers were stay-at-home. Today, 65% of mothers with preschoolers work outside the home. Full-time motherhood is a difficult job that includes household chores and childcare. A study showed that full-time mothers would earn approximately $120,000 USD if paid for their work.

Most mothers are full-time mothers. Whether they stay home or go to work every day, their responsibilities usually don’t change much. Even mothers who have jobs that keep them away from their homes for several hours each day can consider themselves full-time moms. In a more general sense, the term full-time mother is most often used to describe stay-at-home moms who have no other job than mothering, running errands, and looking after their families.

Up until the early 1960s, most mothers were full-time workers. In most cases, the men in the household were the ones who worked full-time, while the women stayed at home. After the advent of women’s revolutions, more and more women started leaving their homes to pursue careers of their own. A study conducted by Stanford University in 2006 indicated that 65% of mothers with preschoolers worked outside the home full or part time. If the results of this study are accurate, it probably reflects that only about one-third of all mothers during that time period were considered full-time stay-at-home moms.

A full-time mother’s job is generally considered to be very difficult. In many cases, these women are not getting enough sleep, averaging only five to six hours each night. Many women who stay at home full time are also much less likely to visit doctors for various health issues that come up than men who work outside the home.

Some of the jobs that full-time mothers perform may include grocery shopping, meal preparation, and various household chores such as laundry and dishwashing. In many cases, stay-at-home moms tend to feel more driven to excel in these areas, likely because they don’t work outside the home. A full-time mother may often find that because she does not have an outside job, expectations for her performance are higher than for mothers who have a job.

A study was conducted in 2010 to try to determine how much a full-time mother would earn if she was actually paid for her work. The study indicated that most full-time mothers would earn an annual salary of approximately $120,000 US Dollars (USD). This study did not include all the hours worked each day by full-time mothers and instead looked at the amount of time spent on the 10 most common housekeeping and maternal chores.




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