Dual-Career Families

worse mothers, better mothers, inevitably feel 'guilty' and (the least questioned myth of all) have undergone a moment of conscious choice when they 'decided' to work. To all these 'young wives' tales' Dual Career Families makes a refreshing antidote, since it is as a pragmatic, unprejudiced and as little inclined to generalise as are the couples it is studying. Essentially, in spite of some hopeful talk in the introduction about possible patterns for the future, it is not a study of how people in general might or ought to combine the demands of marriage with those of two careers, but how six couples did in fact do so, with their own idiosyncratic concepts of roles within the home.