Critique of the Satisfaction of Housewifery and Motherhood

In this article, Hekker tried to view the advantages of housewifery and how this role is being not respected during those times. Hekker used the sarcastic tone to talk about the experiences that she encountered and to make her point of view clear.However, Hekker was not accurate when she presented her information. Almost all the context was based on personal experience and real life examples. Hekker included statistical evidence without giving any back up information about the resources that she used to gather these statistics. For example, when she stated, “Today, fewer than 16% of American families have a full-time housewife-mother.” She committed a fallacy of not supporting her information. Still the author shouldn’t be evaluated for accuracy alone because she is trying to make her point and persuade the readers. However, the author did not commit any logical fallacy. In terms of the conditions of arguments, Hekker's essay was appropriate enough aside from the fact that she lacked the sufficient backing at certain times

Hekker was very defensive while discussing her thoughts in this article. Her tone felt bitter but at the same time sarcastic which served her very well and allowed her to make her point in an effective manner. But she had a problem of controlling her tone in certain parts of the article which made the readers defensive themselves. She would have made her point much better if she had used an informative tone rather than sarcasm. And this over use of sarcasm made her seem offensive in certain points like when she said “For years of fetching other women's children after they'd thrown up in the lunchroom, because I have nothing better to do, or probably there's nothing I do better, while their mothers have "careers".” Her expression seems unconservative. She didn’t seem to take into account that many women were forced to go to the work field to support their husbands and to provide their kids with a