80 20 Impact Values - A Mother’s Worry work outside the home day care / child-care biological parents career co-worker colleague quality time priority / prioritize fulfillment stereotypes How would you describe Margarita's problem? Do others in your group see this the same way? What advice do you have for Margarita? How important is it for young children to spend all their time with their biological mothers? Explain, considering children’s ages, clock hours, quality time, etc. What are some advantages and disadvantages of day care for children. Do you have research and facts to support your opinion? Did your mother work when you were young? How did your family manage that? Some cultures believe one of one’s biggest responsibility is the responsibility to oneself. What does this mean to you? How can a woman best balance being a mother, wife, and worker? What role does the husband play in this? Do the men and women in your group see this issue differently? Imagine a woman with two children ages 4 and 7, a career, and a working husband. Plot out her average day on 24-hour clock. Describe what you think your situation will be like if you decide to marry and raise a family. Recommended: Kramer vs. Kramer <http://snipurl.com/3fkcf> Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Actor, and Screenplay, Kramer vs. Kramer remains as powerfully moving today as it was when released in 1979, simply because its drama will remain relevant for couples of any generation. Adapted by director Robert Benton from the novel by Avery Corman, this is perhaps the finest, most evenly balanced film ever made about the failure of marriage and the tumultuous shift of parental roles. It begins when Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) bluntly informs her husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman) that she’s leaving him, just as his advertising career is advancing and demanding most of his waking hours. Self-involvement is just one of the film’s underlying themes, along with the search for identity that prompts Joanna to leave Ted with their first-grade son (Justin Henry), who now finds himself living with a workaholic parent he barely knows. Juggling his domestic challenge with professional deadlines, Ted is further pressured when his wife files for custody of their son. This legal battle forms the dramatic spine of the film, but its power is derived from Benton’s flawlessly observant script and the superlative performances of his entire cast. Because Benton refuses to assign blame and deals fairly with both sides of a devastating dilemma, the film arrives at equal levels of pain, growth, and integrity under emotionally stressful circumstances. That gives virtually every scene the unmistakable ring of truth--a quality of dramatic honestly that makes Kramer vs. Kramer not merely a classic tearjerker, but one of the finest American dramas of its decade.