The young wage-earner often earns good money,and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence.In textile areas it has long been customary for your mothers to go out to work,but this practice has become so widespread that the working mother is now a not unisual foctor in a child's home life,the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last twenty-five years.
With mother earning and his older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figuer that he still was at the beginning of the century.
When mother works economic advantanges increase,but children lose something of great value if mother's employment prevents her from being home to greed them when they return from school.