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Stay-at-Home Moms Suffer More Sadness

Cite more depression, anger compared to employed mothers: Gallup poll

By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff

Posted May 18, 2012 10:44 AM CDT

(Newser) – Stay-at-home moms struggle with sadness, depression, and anger more often than employed mothers do, according to a sure-to-be-controversial new Gallup poll. While 26% of stay-at-home moms reported feeling sadness much of "yesterday," that figure was just 16% among employed moms. Some 28% of stay-at-home moms said they have been diagnosed with depression, an assertion made by just 17% of employed mothers. Meanwhile, 50% of the stay-at-home group felt stressed and 19% felt angry "yesterday," versus 48% and 14% in the employed group. The poll comes on the heels of a furor over Ann Romney's stay-at-home status, Politico points out.

Ann Romney.
Ann Romney.   (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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ladyrosedeky
May 19, 2012 5:38 PM CDT
I'll buy it because of the amount of anti-anxiety meds that I know many stay at home moms take. However, there is one thing no one has been asking Mrs. Romney that as a former nanny to the very well heeled in my youth I'd like to point out, there is a big difference for wealthy women who stay at home raising children than the average middle to low income wife. No one has asked Mrs. Romney how many house keepers and nannies she had helping her take care of her home and children. I lived and worked in the homes of the very wealthy as a nanny and my last position was a live-in gourmet cook on a five acre estate in Beverly Hills, California. So how many house keepers and nannies did she have helping her? Did she have a personal assistant as the last household had along with a housekeeper and cook? Believe me when I say, it is totally different for the wife of a wealthy man being a stay at home mother than it is for a regular, ordinary, middle-income mom. No disrespect meant, but it is. Anyone to think it wasn't different for her has to be kidding themselves. Just having a housekeeper makes it easier. I will admit, however, being married to a wealthy man comes with its own set of problems that those with less don't have to endure but when it comes to the stay at home mom part, they've got help.
QueenKoopa
May 19, 2012 1:24 PM CDT
If I had to stay at home all of the time I would be depressed/mad too! While having a lazy day at home is nice, if I never got out of the house I would go nuts. I would much rather work than stay home and take care of kids.
Tscare
May 19, 2012 4:11 AM CDT
Why?

 
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