The sweet scent of candied sweet potatoes and honeyed ham fills the house. You're just finishing dinner when your husband walks through the door: "Honey, I'm home!" You greet him with a warm smile, a clean house, and an after-work drink of scotch. You call the kids back from playing with the neighbors in the back yard and they start cleaning up for dinner. Then you all sit around the dining table enjoying each other's company and swap stories about your day. Jimmy got an A on his math test; boy and tomorrow night we have a date at the Hop; There will be a bazaar at the church on Saturday. Warm apple pie concludes the evening and the kids are sent to bed while the two of you watch the evening news it's a typical 1950's all-American evening. This was when the children were unresponsive and there were no "children with the lock key". A lot has changed since then, kids are glued to TV screens and the latest video games, dinner comes from McDonald's and quality time with family has become non-existent. Because this is a domino effect of one thing, mothers working outside the home. Does this seem like a radical hypothesis? Think again. MarriageI'll start with the family base, divorce rates have a direct correlation with women working at least 35 hours a week. According to new research, they are 29% more likely to divorce than those who stay at home and raise children" (Bentley.) However, the same cannot be said for men. "Women's working hours consistently increase divorce, while men's work hours increase. working hours often have no statistical effect." (Noer and Corcoran). Marrying a career woman puts a strain on the marriage more noticeably w...... half of the paper ...... leo.org. Np, 19 07 2010. Web. 12 Nov 2010. Belkin, Lisa “Calling Mr. Mom?”, New York Times 21 010 2010, Print.Carvel, John. “Working Mothers 'Bad for Children '." Guardiano (2003): n. page. Network. 12 November 2010. Carvel, John. "Working mothers have unhealthy children, study finds." Guardiano (2009): n. page. Network. 12 November 2010 . Hoffman, Lois. Child Development. 1. 32. Blackwell Publishing, 1961. Print. (Mertens, Steven B.; Flowers, Nancy (May 2003). "Middle Grade Students Should Be Left Alone After school?" (PDF). Middle School Journal 34 (5): 57–61.