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An article in Parents Magazine pointed out that the feeling of security is the core and foundation for good mental health. Most of the married women over 35 in the labor force are working not because their families really "need the money," but in order to maintain a higher standard of living, get away from some housework, and lead, as they suppose, a more interesting and richer life.
Tens of millions of women in the United States now work outside the home, and the large majority of them have husbands who work, too. A large share have children still at home. There are millions and millions of children who have mothers who leave them needlessly, in order to go to work.
Source: Benson, Ezra Taft, Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson. Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1988. 550.