The sweet smell of candied sweet potatoes and honeyed ham fills the house. You've just finished dinner when your husband walks through the door: "Honey, I'm home!" » You greet him with a warm smile, a clean house, and a glass of scotch after work. You call the children after playing. with neighbors in the yard and they start cleaning up for dinner. You then all sit around the table enjoying each other's company and swap stories about your day. Jimmy got an A on his math test. Mary met one; boy and I will go on a date tomorrow evening at the Hop; there will be a bazaar at the church this Saturday. A warm apple pie will end the evening and the kids will be sent to bed while you watch the evening news. is a typical American evening from the 1950s. It was a time when children didn't talk back and there were no “locked kids”. So much has changed since then, kids are glued to TV screens and the latest video game systems, dinner comes from McDonald's and quality family time has become non-existent. Why is it the domino effect of one thing: working mothers? outside the house. This seems like a radical hypothesis? Think again. MarriageI'll start with family, divorce rates have a direct correlation to women working at least 35 hours a week. are 29% more likely to divorce than those who stay home and raise children, new study finds” (Bentley). However, the same cannot be said for men. “Women's working hours steadily increase the number of divorces, while men's work hours increase. working hours often have no statistical effect. 2010. Web. November 12, 2010. .Belkin, Lisa “Call Mr. Mom?.” New York Times 21 010 2010, Print. Carvel, John. “Working mothers are 'bad for children'.” Guardian (2003): n. page. Internet. November 12, 2010. Carvel, John. “Working mothers have unhealthy children, study finds.” Guardian (2009): n. page. Internet. November 12, 2010. . Hoffman, Lois. Child development. 1. 32. Blackwell Publishing, 1961. 187. Print. (Mertens, Steven B.; Flowers, Nancy (May 2003). “Should High School Students Be Left Alone After School?” (PDF). Middle School Journal 34 (5): 57–61.