Assertion: A middle class wife

This piece gives us a look inside a middle-class wife and mother’s life in 1917. Alice Austin White sardonically, almost tells us why she has a deep hate towards her relatives. She lists out her duties, and responsibilities, and the things that she does and what the ‘in-laws’ say about them. She does not regret having children, she loves them, and adores them. In this time, universities were not accepting of female professors; something she would have been interested in. She talks about her income, and family, and wish of a house-helper that would care for the children and their illnesses, but not take over her job as mom and wife to her husband. I agree that women had a lot to do, and motherly duties are of work. Cooking, cleaning, staying home with the kids everyday, is physically and mentally exhausting, according to the author, and the mom today. I think her hatred for the relatives that look on her pathetically and sarcastically, is well deserved. If I were in her position, I would as well. Being a mother or a father is hard work, and an outside party who is looking on them with a judgmental eye, should just go have some children and then see what they’re going through.