--- title: Exclusive: Millennials Support Working Moms More than Boomers Did description: Much more likely to say that moms who work have just as good relationships with their kids canonical: https://time.com/3936657/exclusive-millennials-more-supportive-of-working-moms-than-previous-generations/ author: Charlotte Alter article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-29T12:00:41.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:57:08.668Z og:title: Exclusive: Millennials Support Working Moms More than Boomers Did og:description: Much more likely to say that moms who work have just as good relationships with their kids og:url: https://time.com/3936657/exclusive-millennials-more-supportive-of-working-moms-than-previous-generations/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf170dd5a46831339/698858b0cd1bba35cf6fc051/gettyimages-4821479051.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3418 og:image:height: 1923 og:image:alt: 482147905 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Exclusive: Millennials Support Working Moms More than Boomers Did twitter:description: Much more likely to say that moms who work have just as good relationships with their kids twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf170dd5a46831339/698858b0cd1bba35cf6fc051/gettyimages-4821479051.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Millennials More Supportive of Working Moms than Previous Generations > Sponsored content. 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Millennials are much more supportive of working mothers than young people in the 1970s and 1990s, and there’s a broader consensus that working moms can have a great relationship with their kids, according to a new study shared exclusively with TIME. [Sign up here for TIME’s weekly roundup of the best parenting stories from anywhere](http://time.com/t4parents). Researchers at University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University attribute the increased acceptance to a shifting social and economic realities over the last 30 years, in which there are more single moms and few can afford not to work. The study, published Monday in the [Psychology of Women Quarterly,](http://pwq.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/11/0361684315590774.full.pdf+html) analyzed the results of two national representative studies of nearly 600,000 respondents. They found that in 2010, only 22% of 12th-graders thought young children suffered if their mother worked, down from 34% in the 1990s and 59% in the 1970s. Adults also showed an increased tolerance for working mothers, with 35% believing that a child was worse off if his or her mother went to work in 2012, compared with 68% in the 1970s. The researchers also found that more people believe working moms can have just as good relationships with their kids as moms who stay at home. In 1977, less than half of adults agreed that “a working mother can establish just as warm and secure a relationship with her children as a mother who does not work.” In 2012, 72% agreed with that statement. “When you have more working mothers, you have to have more acceptance of them,” says Jean Twenge, author of _Generation Me_ and a main researcher on the study. “When people look around and see ‘this is what people do now,’ you have to have more acceptance.” But in some areas, there appeared to be a bit of a backtracking. In the 1990s, 27% agreed that it was best for the man to work and the woman to stay home, while 32% agreed with that idea in 2010-2013\. In the 1990s, 14% thought the husband should make important decisions in the family, but 17% thought so in 2010\. Twenge says that probably doesn’t indicate a spike in sexism, but instead might signify an increased perception that marriage is only for a certain kind of person. “It’s possible that this generation sees marriage as something that people with traditional gender roles do,” she says. “They think it’s for more traditional people.” Twenge says the increased acceptance of working moms isn’t just because millennials have been around more women who work– it’s also part of the millennial tendency towards individualism. “One aspect of individualism is to treat people equally,” she says. “When you treat people as individuals, you’re not going to distinguish between a working mother and a working father.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3936657/exclusive-millennials-more-supportive-of-working-moms-than-previous-generations/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3936657/exclusive-millennials-more-supportive-of-working-moms-than-previous-generations/"},"headline":"Millennials More Supportive of Working Moms than Previous Generations","datePublished":"2015-06-29T12:00:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:57:08.668Z","description":"Much more likely to say that moms who work have just as good relationships with their kids","url":"https://time.com/3936657/exclusive-millennials-more-supportive-of-working-moms-than-previous-generations/","keywords":["Living","women","Millennials","Mothers","Work","Parents","motherhood","working moms","boomers","career"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf170dd5a46831339/698858b0cd1bba35cf6fc051/gettyimages-4821479051.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Charlotte Alter","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/charlotte-alter/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf170dd5a46831339/698858b0cd1bba35cf6fc051/gettyimages-4821479051.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"482147905","caption":"482147905","creditText":"Jasper Cole—Getty Images/Blend Images RM","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3936657/exclusive-millennials-more-supportive-of-working-moms-than-previous-generations/","name":"Millennials More Supportive of Working Moms than Previous Generations"}}]}] ```