Did anyone catch this article written by KoreAm Journal editor Corinna Knoll? I thought it was fascinating and have been thinking a lot about it. I know this might apply to some of our readers (as well as some fellow Kimchi Mamas).
Motherhood: Being Single and a Mom in the Korean American Community
KoreAm Journal, NCM Award Winner, Corina Knoll, Posted: Jan 30, 2006
There was a time when she would count the minutes like they were dollars, back when the days died too early and she was stretched paper thin, working a full-time job and raising two kids on her own.
The after-school program her daughters attended charged parents for every minute they were late. So each day she left her paralegal job, she faced a no-win battle on the jammed freeways of Los Angeles. Often, she would break down in tears amid the rush hour traffic, thinking about the money she would lose with every passing minute. She wondered how she had become a woman who cried in her car.
This wasn’t in her master plan. For a while, her life had played out the way she thought it was supposed to. She was married at 24 to a successful businessman and gave birth to daughters, Liah and Sarah. She didn’t worry about money, drove various luxury cars and shopped on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. She worked occasionally at home for her husband’s company, did housework and watched over her daughters’ schooling and extracurricular activities.
The rest of the article is posted here.
