Well, I most certainly DID feel judged for being a
working mom, mostly because I wanted so much to be a GOOD mom! One of the first things I did was join Parents As Teachers, and it was terribly hard to work with them as
everything was geared toward stay at home mom's. Meetings were in the daytime, when I was at work. It took a
lot to get the parent educators to come to my home in the early evening. The play center was open late only a couple times a week, but open every single weekday from 8 to 5. Then of course there were the remarks I got from people about "letting other people raise your children". Excuse me, but other people did NOT raise my son! I raised my son! I was a lawyer, albeit a lower-salaried public servant, and I was divorced from a man who refused to pay me a dime in child support or watch our son. Was I supposed to go on welfare and move into low-income housing or be homeless when I was educated and capable of holding down a job and paying a sitter? But I also had never been around young children and I
really needed the support of parent's programs...but there were none that weren't intended for stay-at-home parents, not even mommy and me exercise classes.