Lauren Stevens, Chapter 1, Question 1

The issue posed in this chapter that has effected my life in the past, is the point Wheelan makes about how children are becoming more expensive. Not because buying them the necessities of life is expensive, but because moms and dads are leaving their high income jobs to care for children. My mom has been a nurse her whole adult life, and has gone back to work and left work many times for the sake of me and my sister, Natalie. Its not that my dad never cared for us "less" than my mom did, it was just easier for her to come and go from work, and the most logical reason was that she was making less money than my dad was. Many changes were made in our lives in order for our lives to work around getting my sister and I to and from school and extra-curricular actives. One of the major changes was sending us to Minnehaha because my mom did want to go back to work, and the South Campus was just a few blocks away. Although this doesn't affect me as prevalently anymore, it was a major factor in my upbringing, and I've seen it happen to many people around me as well.