Stayed at home despite her college education, fought incredibly hard for it while I was a baby in diapers. She hurt herself chasing three extremely uncooperative children, but financially we were not the most successful family. I watched my father work jobs he hated and work two jobs despite insomnia and back pain to make sure we were taken care of. I don't and won't watch the same things happen in my family. That's why I support the “working mom revolution” and started college with the intent of having a career. I know you can have it all because I'm doing it. The evidence doesn't lie, better test scores and children with higher self-esteem don't lie. Why do we hear every few years that women are needed in the home? An answer to this question can be found in Mary Douglas Vavrus's article in Feminist Media Studies entitled "Opting Out Moms in the New Selling New Traditionalism in the new millennium." Ms. Vavrus says our current media climate is under the same influence as during World War II by the government trying to bring women home through the media to make room in the job market. Personally, I think the term traditional values ​​has played a big role in why women are strongly encouraged to stay or get married and stay home with children. But as we evolve as a society, tradition is changing, and this seems to be harder for our older generations to accept