{"id":4357,"date":"2008-04-24T00:56:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/24\/cartoon-wives-at-home\/"},"modified":"2008-04-24T00:56:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T08:16:13","slug":"cartoon-wives-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Wives At Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dollarsandsense.org\/archives\/2008\/0308toon.html\">Dollars and Sense cartoon is up<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/wives_at_home.png' alt='Wives At Home' \/><\/p>\n<p>D&#038;S editor Amy Gluckman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dollarsandsense.org\/archives\/2008\/0308toon.html\">writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Women who came of age 20 or 30 years ago in the United States may be forgiven our surprise that the whole work-home-motherhood thing continues to be so fraught. Surely by now, many thought, women would not be sweating it\u2014at least no more than men do. Wrong! The media can take some of the credit, for, among other things, continuing to play up the alleged mommy wars between &#8220;working&#8221; and &#8220;stay-at-home&#8221; moms. At a more basic level, many people (well, men) still seem to think homemaking and raising kids is basically a &#8220;Ten-Year Nap&#8221;\u2014the (tongue-in-cheek, we hope) title of a current bestselling novel on the subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s also some interesting stuff about what happened to Japanese divorces when the laws about pension allocations to ex-spouses changed, but you&#8217;ll have to click through to read that. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My new Dollars and Sense cartoon is up! D&#038;S editor Amy Gluckman writes: Women who came of age 20 or 30 years ago in the United States may be forgiven our surprise that the whole work-home-motherhood thing continues to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4357\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-gender-and-the-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}