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Assignment #10

In the article “Global Care Crisis” by Arlie Hochschild, Lise Widding Isaksen, and Sambasivan Uma Devi, they discuss the extents that women go, to provide for their families. The discussion of how mothers migrate from foreign countries such as the Philippines, to America, in search of jobs, is prevalent in the discussion of the “commons.” The “commons” can generally referred to as resources held in a community, and what the person gives and receives from that community. These mothers who often leave many children back in their own country, face a difficult decision of whether or not to leave to a foreign country to look for work. Many mothers feel proud of working overseas, but feel terrible about leaving their children without a mother. Mothers often face a backlash, being accused of being a bad mother and selfish for leaving their kids without a mother. Mothers from foreign countries often become caretakers, nannies, nurses, and housekeepers. This is considered a global chain because they leave their children to go take care of other children. The children that are left without a mother to care for them affects the system of the commons. The community of children are left with this hole in their life without a mother. In the commons, where communities are very close and rely on each other, often fall apart due to the large amount of children without mothers. A potential solution to this problem is allowing these children to join their mothers in the journey for work. It would allow for a better relationship along with being able to care for your own children. Although, it creates imbalance in society, when there are so many children left to fend for themselves in a foreign country. It could also cause mothers to potentially lose money if they were to bring their children with them. The cost of caring for children is vastly high, nowadays, and it creates another imbalance because even if mothers are making more than they did before, they will still struggle caring for their children at a low paying job. This is a problem that will require research and a lot of potential solutions.