blog 11

Erin Brockovich is a good example of a working mother struggling with child care issues, money issues, and holding onto a job. Granted the movie turns a job into a career and she deals with somewhat neglecting her children but this is what a lot of women deal with. Erin’s neighborhood was mixed income, and in the beginning of the movie the women who was taking care of her children was incredibly unreliable. This is a completely normal situation for many single mothers who cannot afford regular day care. Also Erin doesn’t eat dinner one night so that her children can, although Erin does have some luck when she finds a good care giver she has to cope with her children missing her and having to sacrifice time with them to put food on the table.
Many women even high income ones face struggles when it comes to being a mother and having a job. Finding adequate child care isn’t the only problem it is a main one but finding someone who you trust your child to who is also willing to be stable and help work with them on an educational level is ridiculously hard to find anywhere, it’s almost impossible to find in low income neighborhoods. Single mothers don’t have the funds to pay for child care and that hurts not only the mother but the child in question, also it is hurting the child’s future and the child’s ability to learn so they can earn more later in life. Children need to be able to get a better education then their parents did so that they can one day pull themselves and possibly their families out of low income and into better neighborhoods and schools. Although their mothers may not have the opportunity to earn more money and thus give their children more we need to provide so that yet another generation will not end up in poverty.