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The idea for this study first emerged during an interview with a thirty-twoyear- old mother, whom I will call Jodie, who worked in a food packing plant. As a newly minted assistant professor at the University of Illinois, I set out to study the experiences of working-class parents who were raising school-aged children. Jodie, one of the participants in my initial study, had just come home from her job at the nearby food plant, and I was asking her about the challenges facing her and her husband. They were managing split shifts at work while dealing with the busy schedules of their two children, who played sports, attended church activities twice a week, and needed help with their endless amounts of homework. As she described her typical day, she suddenly stopped and said, “You know, compared to when my kids were little, this is nothing. This is a piece of cake. Going back to work after a few weeks and leaving my new baby with someone else. Now that was hell.” She then looked at me and said, “That is really the study you should be doing.”