SOC 350 - Final Exam Questions with Complete Solutions My mom appreciates my father a lot. She lives a much nicer life than she did when she was growing up. They live an ideal life almost, and I don't think either one of them takes advantage of it or believes in it more. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother It was a very traditional marriage where mom gave up her career, stayed home, and raised the kids, and dad went on with his career. And it worked because dad's career really took off. So I wonder if the marriage would not have been as successful if dad hadn't been as successful at his job. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother My mother dropped out at twelfth grade, and she used to work as a home attendant part-time, but staying home and taking care of the kids, that's what she liked most. So she stopped working when she got diabetic. She was more relaxed at home. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother Staying home and taking care of us, I know she enjoyed that. She's a great mother, but I think she enjoyed it, too. So I never wished she worked. I never wished she didn't work, either, but she was working as a mother, as a quote unquote housewife. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother I hear about this ad nauseam! My mother was the first woman in the state to be in agricultural engineering, so she was in the vanguard and had a lot of opportunities. She was offered a grant to study, and it was this fabulous opportunity, but she chose to marry my father, giving up the scholarship. Her life would have gone in a totally different direction, and she looks back now and blames my father for giving up this opportunity. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother My mother was always dissatisfied that she didn't have more stuff. She wanted my father to be more ambitious, and he wasn't an ambitious man. As long as he was supporting the family, it didn't matter to him if it was a bigger house or a bigger car. But forty years of being married to a woman saying, "Why don't we have more money?" —I think that does something to your self -esteem. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother he was supporting the family, it didn't matter to him if it was a bigger house or a bigger car. But forty years of being married to a woman saying, "Why don't we have more money?" —I think that does something to your self -esteem. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother A lot of the kids, their mothers had already gone to work. It felt odd to me that, "Well, what does your mother do? What do you mean she stays home? What does she do?" And we didn't have the money that my friends had, either. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother I liked having her around. But I would have liked her to have had more enjoyment from it or more of a career track. My brother and I would have been okay. As a kid, you don't realize your parent's unhappy. I thought she just wanted to be a mom and carpool, and it turns out, she didn't want to do that at all. ✅Having a Home -Centered Mother In my early childhood, my dad was going on and off with jobs, so my mom was the core. It seemed totally natural. She didn't want to be home, and it kept the family stable. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers I had a lot of opportunities other people didn't have, just because my parents were willing to pay for my education. And that was because of the two of them. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers I had a lot of opportunities other people didn't have, just because my parents were willing to pay for my education. And that was because of the two of them. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers I've heard all that stuff about how children need a parent at home, but I don't think that having her stay home, particularly considering her temper, would have been anything other than counterproductive. Even though her sort of high -end administrative job is significantly below her talent and intelligence, it's better than the boredom and anger if she was at home. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers I honestly don't think I could deal with my mother twenty -four hours a day. She'd be very smothering. Even with her job, she'd be like, "Oh, I don't have time to cook you brownies." I'm like, "Mom, I wouldn't eat them anyway." If I had to deal with someone like that all the time, I'd go crazy. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers My mom would definitely be working, pay or no pay, because she just loves to work. But I didn't feel we were lacking in anything. Any extracurricular activity, she would be there. She was very supportive, very generous, just always there, and she still is, no matter how much of a devil me and my brother are. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -
Committed Mothers I was always proud of my mother. I'm sure when she started out she never imagined she would become executive treasurer of a bank. She always says there's tons of them in the company, but I say to her, "Mom, you're one of them!" ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers She never felt overburdened because she was raising three kids and working at the same time. I think because my father was equally involved, it lessened the burden, so that made a big difference. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers She wasn't home to take care of us all the time, but my father was always around for us. He's a firefighter and had a lot of free time. And if she'd been home and been miserable, that would have made me miserable. And I was always happy. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers I really enjoyed preschool. They taught me the ABC's. And I had a lot of friends. I got my social skills. So it was a good thing I went to day care. I think that you learn a lot of social skills that are important. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers My father's financial contribution has always been sporadic. He's more of a hustler, where if there's an easier way to do something, he's gonna find it. My mother's been the breadwinner. So it's unfair that my father never did the cooking or cleaning or an ything like that. It didn't seem to bother them, but I think it should have been more equal. It makes no sense having one person do everything. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -
Committed Mothers Work was her whole world, but her circumstances were really terrible.worked there for seventeen years, and instead of getting a promotion, she was forced into retirement. ✅Support and Sympathy for Work -Committed Mothers [They've been] very happy [for] twenty -three years. They always seem to have a really open relationship. My father never tried to dominate. Neither did my mother. So they get along well with each other. ✅Staying Together, For Better and Worse They've been together over thirty years. Through thick and thin, they always find a way together because it was a fifty -fifty relationship. (Angel) They would argue at the dinner table, but over politics, not over anything personal. It's fifty -fifty. I thi nk that's wonderful. (Brandon) ✅Staying Together, For Better and Worse Their relationship —having the wife have to do everything, like the household chores and all that stuff —I wouldn't want that. ✅Staying Together, For Better and Worse Even though my dad gambles, she's not really a type to fight. But I wouldn't put up with that. (Alicia) My father had a "woman thing," to say it nicely. She put up with it. I could never be like that. You just have to be a certain person. I'm not that pers on. I tell my husband every day, "Never!" (Dolores) ✅Staying Together, For Better and Worse As a young kid, I guess I thought that they were happy together, but now I see they just don't like to be separated. They fight, but they spend all their time together. They're very tied to each other —not necessarily in a positive way. A kind of crazy symb iosis. ✅Staying Together, For Better and Worse
