Talk:Work–family balance in the United States

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment
This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2021 and 14 May 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): BeckMarin. Peer reviewers: Jeslyndv, Yaydnew.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 05:06, 18 January 2022 (UTC)

Explanation for creating this new article
Right now there are three relevant articles that are rather incomplete, poorly written, and unorganized. They are work-life balance, work-family conflict, and work-life balance (United States). These three articles, even when combined, inadequately cover the issue of work-family balance in the United States. Work-life balance is disproportionately focused on the United States and does not make the distinction between “work-life” and “work- family” which are two separate, although at times overlapping, issues. The United States version of this article, work-life balance (United States), only covers two subtopics: history and relevant legislation. Work-family conflict contains only theoretical models of this conflict, but no relevant information about what actually occurs. These three articles each touch upon a specific part of my topic but do not cover it adequately and perhaps more importantly, do it in three separate articles when it could be simply one. This article would take the work-family conflict article and specify it to be work-family conflict (United States). This is because although there are conflicts regarding how to balance work with the stress of everyday life, there has been a specific focus on the problems arising out of how United States citizens are balancing their jobs with their families. This revision would address many of the topics that are currently missing from these three articles. Workplace discrimination and inequality as a result of family, effects of working parents on children, ideology of motherhood, delayed fertility, husband and wife inequalities, and solutions for curing this balance (such as the dependence upon domestic workers) would be some potential subtopics that are extremely relevant to how work-family balance issues arise today.

New entry proposal
There is no article that addresses work-family balance in the United States specifically. Even the one that addresses this topic on a world-wide basis is extremely lacking in relevancy and quality. I am choosing to create an entirely new “work-family balance” article that address the United States because of the huge changes that have occurred specifically for the U.S. in terms of families and workplaces. While work-life balance in the United States has addresses a lot of non-family life issues, there is an incredible amount of importance placed upon how families specifically have influenced and been influenced the workplace. This importance is reflected in the amount of literature that exists. I plan on using some of the relevant family sections on the work-life balance (United States) article and the work-life balance article, but I am not comfortable completely deleting or adding to either of those articles because they do address non-family topics such as work-related stress and health issues that may arise. Lillyyu (talk) 01:46, 3 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Hello, and first off let me congratulate, yours is a very good first article, especially because there are many many references! It's great to have a knowledgeable editor contributing to topics which have little or no coverage. A couple of suggestions to make this article even better: I think that, according to the policy about titles, the title should be "Work-family balance in the United States", if there is consensus, it can be changed easily; in my opinion the lead section could benefit from being expanded a little (see here); it would be wonderful if you could expand the web references with more info, perhaps using this. Of course these are just suggestions, not criticism, take them or leave them. If you need help on editing things (I'm not an expert on the subject), drop me a line in my talk page. Again, great job! PS: You should definitely add some wikilinks to this article in the relevant places (at the moment it's a lil orphan!). Zidanie5 (talk) 03:03, 4 November 2011 (UTC)


 * Thank you so much for the feedback! Thank you for pointing out the information about the title, lead section, and web references. I will also go through many of the relevant articles and try to wikilink this article. I appreciate your comments and I think they are extremely helpful. Lillyyu (talk) 03:06, 19 November 2011 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology of Financial Planning II
— Assignment last updated by Wfmira (talk) 16:23, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

"The American Families Plan of 2021" - I recommend deleting this title because I cannot find anything to substantiate that this plan has gone into effect and passed through Congress. Until then, it will be a useful topic to have earmarked on this talk page!

"Lower-class families are disproportionately made up of single mother households." - This should have a source to define what 'disproportionately' means.

U.S. single parent households - Commission on post. (n.d.). https://post.ca.gov/portals/0/post_docs/publications/Building%20a%20Career%20Pipeline%20Documents/safe_harbor.pdf ^this may be a great place to help supplement this statement!

"Unlike middle-class women, lower-class women do not have the same financial and marriage incentives to marry especially in the face of likely divorce." - This would also need a citation to substantiate the claim of 'likely divorce' for lower-class women (especially compared to middle-class women. I have not been able to find anything to help support this claim, so I believe the best course of action may be to simply delete the latter part of the sentence, beginning with 'especially..."

Realgeorgeallen (talk) 04:09, 29 September 2023 (UTC) George Allen

Passage addressing (US) readers
''If our society were to follow in the footsteps of other countries who allow paid time off for taking care of sick children or even for having children our country might be able to get rid of the welfare program. Mothers wouldn't need welfare because they could have a job and be able to take care of children. Employers would have to allow parents to leave work to take care of children and they would have to pay them for it as well. When the parent is still getting a paycheck there would be no need for welfare programs to supplement another income or for a lack of income.''

This passage at the end of the article doesn't seem to fit with Wikipedia's style, but I have zero experience, so I don't dare fix it. Am I right? Thanks 24.166.246.4 (talk) 17:59, 26 September 2023 (UTC)