I read an article on working mothers and an individual study that was compiled by the University of Massachusetts dealing with the topic of how children are affected by their working mothers. This article appeared on Dad Magazine.Com. Dr. Elizabeth Harvey studied a number of children in the 1 to 3 year old range and showed how their mother working affected them in their later years. She examined these cases in four employment variables. 1) Whether the mother worked during the first three years of her child’s life. 2) How soon a mother returned to work after childbirth. 3) How many hours she worked a week during the first three years of her child’s life. 4) And if there was a period of unemployment during the first three years. The study showed that the children whose parents worked during the first three years were not affected by their mothers’ jobs. The study also showed that the only children who were affected were children who had mother’s who worked long hours and late night hours. These children were shown to have a slightly lower test score than the other children of their age.This article interested me because in our class this semester we have talked a lot about how a family works. One of the topics we have discussed was this one, and I was glad to see that mothers can work without their children being affected by it. I was especially glad to see this study because there are a lot of single mothers being forced to work and raise children at the same time. ...