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Family Versus Career
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Usually an Always Female trope, as well as Truth in Television. Though one can legitimately question whether a man who spends all his time at the office is a 'father' in any but the biological sense. This one basically boils down to "how dare a woman be good at her career job and have a family, too!" Sometimes, it ends in Take a Third Option and a woman effectively strives to reach the top of her field while having genuine bonds with her kids (even if they don't always pass time together, and a nanny is very involved), but usually ends in the woman having to give up her job and be a Housewife to cater to the demands of her family, or at least feel frustrated at her lack of career advancement. Some sort of ill relative or Doorstop Baby may force the issue. If she hasn't already gone through Career Versus Man, she'll go through this one. If a husband is present, asking him to help around the house is usually out of the question since, you know, "his work is more important and he deserves his rest". Related to Feminine Women Can Cook, Maternally Challenged, Children Raise You, Doting Parent, and High-Powered Career Woman. Compare Mandatory Motherhood, I Want Grandkids, and My Biological Clock Is Ticking. Contrast Action Mom, who mostly points and laughs at this. Compare and contrast When You Coming Home, Dad?, a male-leaning counterpart where the balance between career and family tips too far in the direction of "career". |
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Underdogs: Ewan's mother became a stay-at-home mom because of him. His problems with mainstream education meant that she was constantly having to go to his schools in the middle of the day, and having a regular job just wasn't convenient. | |
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At the end of Pretty Little Liars, ALL of the principal cast's main plans revolve around starting families/getting married. Somewhat subverted as the cast did get fulfillment out of their respective employment while they had them, particularly Hanna who had her own business, they just don't seem to believe a career is important past your early twenties. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Diana Prince, the nurse whose identity Di buys, wants to continue working as a nurse, but after having her baby her husband knocks her out and literally chains her in their kitchen. This reaction is treated as normal and not dangerous at all even though he explains it as being embarrassing that his wife and the mother of his child would "have" to work, disregarding her feelings of wanting to work and be a mother entirely. | |
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Wild Rose (2018): The prevalent conflict is that Rose-Lynn has difficulty balancing her dream and caring for her family, and Marion at one point chews her out for focusing on her performance after her son breaks his arm. In this case, however, it's more indicative of Rose-Lynn's immaturity, and she later wisens up and finds a good balance. | |
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Princess Carolyne deals with this in Season 6 of Bojack Horseman. She wants to be the perfect agent, business owner, and mother, but tends to ignore the latter in favour of work. She is overworking herself by choice as a means of generating self-satisfaction and feels guilty for loving her work too much, but at the same time took great efforts to adopt her daughter Ruthie and is more positively involved in her life than any other parent in the show besides Vanessa Gekko and Rutabaga (her rivals), Kelsey, Guy, and Hollyhock's dads. | |
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Girls5eva: Prior to Girls5eva's reunion, Dawn and Scott were planning for a second baby. Her revitalized dreams of pop stardom puts a stop to this plan for now. Scott isn't thrilled about it but tries to be understanding. | |
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In TaleSpin, Rebecca was occasionally portrayed as neglecting Molly somewhat due to the amount of work she had to put into Higher for Hire. It was never suggested she shouldn't be running the company, just that she should be trying for a better work/life balance. | |
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The Grudge: Subtly hinted at with Susan. She wears a wedding ring and one out-of-focus picture in her apartment might be of a little boy (the lighting makes it hard to tell), but she seems to live alone while she works at her overseas job. | |
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Cuddy on House seems to be falling victim to this trope via her adopted baby. In this case, Cuddy is a single mom, and doesn't really have a husband to help her take care of the baby, so it's a little more justified. | |
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Great Teacher Onizuka: Ms. Kanzaki tries to have her cake and eat it too, and in fact had her daughter Urumi partially to help advance her own career as a stock trader (she chose sperm from a genius scientist so Urumi would be smart and able to help her with her work). She works from home, but might as well not be there, given how absorbed she is in work, to the point that she doesn't even notice when Urumi tries to commit suicide. | |
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Deconstructed in The Intern. Jules is the head of a successful company and is considering hiring a CEO so she can have more time at home with her family. But it's then pointed out that hiring a CEO won't automatically fix any problems she has at home, and Jules herself is vital to the running of her company. Her husband, who had been having an affair, calls it off and agrees to work harder to fix their situation. | |
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Parks and Recreation This shows up in the seventh season episode "Pie Mary" when Leslie is criticized by some members of the public for being a working mother and not quite fitting the conventions of a candidate's wife, with one competing candidate's wife even scoffing that she's "trying to have it all". At the end of the episode, she and Ben angrily but calmly call out their critics, with Ben in particular pointing out that no one ever asks him if he misses the kids when he's away working or who's looking after them when he's not home. They get a crowd that half cheers and half boos them. This is Defied for their campaign manager Jennifer Barkley, who makes it very clear she's not one for motherhood and likes it that way. |
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Averted in the The Flintstones movie Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby. When Pebbles' and Bamm-Bamm's twins are born, Pebbles immediately goes back to work at her advertising agency. Since Bamm-Bamm is a screenwriter, he is able to work from home and be a full-time dad. | |
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A fairly common conflict in Jane the Virgin. Rafael struggles to balance his commitment to Jane and their child and his commitments to the hotel, which he considers his father's legacy. In season 3, we learn that he is not biologically a Solano. When he and Jane get together, Michael is pressured by Rafael between his dangerous career as a cop, and Mateo's safety. He is willing to choose Jane and Mateo, but Jane stops him from quitting his job and lets Rafael know that. Season 2 focuses on Jane struggling to balance her new baby, her tangle of personal relationships, and going to grad school. |
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This is a major theme in the Lyrical Nanoha series post-StrikerS, as the lead ladies grow out of their Magical Girl status and become Magical Women, although for the most part this trope is defied, as Nanoha herself and most of her friends manage to combine family life with successful careers. One major example, however, comes up right in the first season and forms a huge part of Fate Testarossa's backstory: her single mother Precia focused so much on her career that she wasn't there to save her first daughter Alicia when she died, driving Precia borderline insane with grief and eventually leading to her excessively cruel treatment of Fate, Precia's cloned Replacement Goldfish of Alicia. | |
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Grey's Anatomy: Bailey's husband (a House Husband) got upset at her for not having enough time for their son. When she has to choose between general surgery and a pediatrics fellowship (she originally wanted to go for general, but realized she had an interest in peds, which would have her working more hours), her husband outright tells her that if she takes the pediatrics fellowship, he'll divorce her. She refuses to even make the choice, deciding to divorce her husband for treating her that way, but has to choose general surgery since she would then become a single mother. Chief Webber's wife keeps telling him that if he doesn't retire then she will leave him since he kept promising to do it and kept putting it off. (Hilarious in Hindsight, in that she did leave him — first by getting Alzheimer's, and then by, y'know, dying.) Cristina and Meredith's desire to not have children is implied to be partially due to not wanting this situation to happen, especially Meredith who doesn't want to end up being a bad parent like her mother was. Meredith eventually gets over this and has a child with Derek (with another on the way), and there isn't any conflict. Most of the couples on the show are made up of people who work together, so the trope is usually averted. The hospital also has its own daycare center, which makes things easier. Invoked, however, by Cristina when she and Meredith have a big fight in Season 10. She claims that, because Meredith by now has two kids (the son is named Bailey), she has naturally had to cut back on her surgery hours and is probably not at the top of her game. Because the two are carrying the Conflict Ball during this season, Meredith is obliged to take offense at this. Rare Male Example in the tenth season, once again involving Bailey. Her Second Love Ben Warren had a surgery residency in Los Angeles but quit because the show takes place in Seattle and he wasn't getting any screen time — err, was far away from his family. Bailey (understandably) worries that her new marriage is going to end the same way the old one did. Ultimately, the situation is resolved by Ben enrolling in the residency program at Seattle Grace Grey Sloan Mercy Death. Ben eventually decides to become a firefighter (see spin-off show Station Nineteen). Bailey is at first upset but eventually learns to accept his new dangerous career. An interesting case with Owen Hunt. He starts dating a woman. But when she reveals that she will gladly become a stay-at-home mom after marriage, he breaks off the relationship, claiming he wants a working woman for a partner. Eventually, he adopts a baby boy, before discovering that he will also be having a girl after a one-night-stand with an ex. |
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In Airplane II: The Sequel, an early indication that we're not supposed to like Elaine's current man (aside from him not being Ted Stryker, of course) is that he very seriously expects her to quit her rewarding job as a computer officer on board the first passenger space shuttle and start making babies. | |
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In Tyson's Run, Tyson's dad quits working as a football coach so he can help train Tyson before the marathon. The local newspaper runs a story about it with the headline "Family Over Football." | |
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Subverted in New Dynamic English, where Max decides to change his job from a travelling businessman to a radio worker because he missed his family. This was already foreshadowed in the software version where it's stated that he'd always miss his family even though he had been travelling. | |
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Mad Men: It's implied that Betty's less-sympathetic traits stem from high intelligence - she has an anthropology degree from Bryn Mawr - socially constrained from having a career outside the home. Joan is expected to leave her office manager job and start pumping out babies when Greg makes chief resident. She actually does resign even when he is passed over. But since she realizes that she values having her own work and he is an awful husband even by the standards of this show, the arrangement doesn't last. She then demonstrates her competence in a bid to save her job and starts a schedule that also allows her to bond with her young son, even after she rises up through the corporate ranks. |
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In You Don't Own Me, this was essentially forced on Kendra; she still aspired to be a pediatrician after having her first child and initially tried to return to work after Bobby was born, but struggled to cope due to what she later realised was post-partum depression. Her husband strongly 'encouraged' her to become a stay-at-home mother like his own mother had been, but Kendra's mental condition only deteriorated further, especially after the birth of their second child. She believes it was Martin's plan all along to manipulate her into giving up her career to be a housewife; she couldn't even handle being a stay-at-home mother due to her poor mental and emotional state. Following Martin's death, Kendra got treatment and is now happy as a working mother, with a nanny to help. | |
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In The Smurfs, Patrick, enraged at the Smurfs' responsibility for ruining his business pitch, runs off to save his job and abandons his wife Grace when she defends them. He later has second thoughts when Grace texts him a sonogram picture of their upcoming baby. | |
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In Supermom, Liza struggles with her desire to get back into superheroing. Eventually, she reaches a compromise with her family where she'll hero part-time. | |
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Kathy from Jimmie (2008) quit her studies when her autistic son Jimmie was born. Her career as a translator didn't take off until after he was institutionalized. | |
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The For Better or for Worse fanfic The New Retcons explored Elizabeth and this trope further, with Elizabeth wanting to be defined as more than 'Anthony's wife, Francoise and James's mother', but thinking that she has to enforce this trope, and is surprised when Anthony suggests getting a job if she doesn't want to be just that. (It's only worse in that she's following in her mother's footsteps. Elly had the same feelings about this trope: hating it yet thinking it's ironclad. It was a contributing factor in her losing her mind.) Thérèse, meanwhile, admits she's Maternally Challenged and in the end, would pick her career over her family, giving primary custody of Francoise to Anthony and emigrating to France to further it (though it's agreed she will have Francoise for one month every summer). | |
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Used in the Zootopia fan-comic I Will Survive. Judy gets pregnant by Nick and wants an abortion. One of her reasons is that a baby would be a detriment to her career. She wants to be promoted to lieutenant and realizes that raising a child would delay that by months, if not years. | |
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Scrubs: Carla thinks about staying home with the baby for a while. After taking a six-week break after the birth of her child, Carla realizes she can't stay away from her job for a whole year because she loves working there. Turk isn't too happy about the decision but quickly gets over it. By the end of the episode, Carla starts working again but feels sad about having to leave Izzy with a nanny. In season 8, JD takes a job at another hospital to be able to spend more time with Sam, though with him it's more about being not being able to see his friends from his old job. When Dr. Cox becomes Chief of Medicine, he struggles with juggling his new responsibilities on top of taking care of patients (something he really doesn't have to do but wants to) and picking up his son Jack from school. Jordan tells him she understands that he'll need time to figure out how to balance things out since he refuses to give up on anything, and she doesn't care if he has time to pick Jack up from school, just as long as he's there to read him a bedtime story and tuck him in at night. |
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Our Miss Brooks: Several episodes (i.e. "The Wrong Mrs. Boynton") suggest that Miss Brooks' intention upon marrying Mr. Boynton is to quit her job and become a fulltime wife and mother. Miss Brooks finally marries Mr. Boynton at the end of The Movie Grand Finale. | |
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The entire third season of Ugly Betty has been about this message. This is especially ironic since (a) Betty doesn't even have children or a husband, and (b) the family member screaming for the attention is her sister, who already is home with their ill father on a daily basis anyway. | |
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The page image comes from Baby Blues, in which career woman Rhonda feels shafted by her mother because she has yet to settle down and have a family, compared to her sister Wanda, who as of this time has three children. | |
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This was addressed in an early episode of King of the Hill. When Bobby is diagnosed with ADD (when really, he had consumed far too much sugar) old-fashioned Hank suggests that Peggy quit her job as a substitute teacher and become a stay-at-home mom to give Bobby more attention. Peggy reluctantly agrees and stays home, but quickly grows bored. By the end of the episode, Hank realizes that Peggy isn't happy when she has so little to do and supports her decision to return to teaching. | |
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Deconstructed in Conversations with a Cryptid with All For One, which is arguably the crux of all their problems as they want to have both. They started a family, only to abandoning them with well-meaning intentions when their criminal activities caught the eyes of many enemies. This abandoment emotionally scarred their spouse and child for years. They attempted to purge all their enemies, leaving many heroes and civilians caught in the crossfire, while also leaving a successor to take over and take the blame of their actions. By the time All For One does reunite with their family, all of Japan is on the verge of falling apart and the heroes are hardly able to control the criminal element which grows wilder without their leader's guidance. It's strongly implied for their family and for Japan that it would have been better if All For One just stuck with one to begin with. | |
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In Vampire Academy, this is mentioned to be the reason so few dhampir women choose to train for a career as guardians. They opt instead to have children. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1985): In "Little Boy Lost", the photojournalist Carol Shelton must decide whether to accept her dream assignment abroad or marry her long-time boyfriend Greg and have children. The day after the job offer, she meets a strange boy named Kenny at the zoo and she assumes that he was sent by a modeling agency to work with her. The two of them spend the day together and quickly form a bond. The next day, Carol breaks it to Greg that she has decided to take the assignment. Immediately afterwards, she finds Kenny at her apartment and he pleads with her to remain in the US. Confused, she asks him how he knew about her conversation with Greg and where she lived but Kenny runs away. He mysteriously vanishes before Carol can catch up with him. The following morning, Carol sees Kenny in the park and questions him once again. She discovers that Kenny is the son that she would have had if she had chosen to turn down the assignment and marry Greg. Carol explains that she does want children but there are other things that she wants to do first. Kenny says that she might have a son one day but it won't be him. He then fades away, calling Carol "Mom" just before he disappears forever. | |
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Dark Waters: Rob’s wife is a former workers comp lawyer who is now a stay at home mom. | |
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An episode of American Dad! tackles this. When Stan befriends a senator, he leaves Roger to take care of Steve to focus on climbing the political ladder. However, when Roger's antics cause the senator's daughter to be taken by drug lords and doped up, the senator reveals he doesn't give a crap about her and only cares about his job, making Stan realize that his family comes first. | |
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Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982: Jiyoung's mother wanted to be a teacher, but she had to quit school to go work at a factory to support her brothers' schooling. Invoked by Jiyoung's mother when she persuades Jiyoung's sister to go to university to become an elementary school teacher. Jiyoung's mother says that being a teacher is a good career for women because it is easy to care for a child while working as a teacher. Jiyoung quits her job when she has her child, as she can not find someone who can look after her child. Jiyoung's psychiatrist says that his wife gave up on becoming a professor, and eventually quit working altogether to care for her child. She seems bored, as she started studying elementary school-level math as a hobby. The counselor at Jiyoung's psychiatrist's office quits her job as she became pregnant. |
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A variation occurs in Jem. At the start of season 2 Pizzazz and Roxy threaten to kick Stormer out of the band if she doesn't get her brother Craig to find out Jem's secret identity. She gives in but Craig doesn't take it lightly when they find out what her friends said to Stormer. | |
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You're My Pet is a major deconstruction of this trope, with the main character eventually ending up with someone who tells her it's her decision whether she wants to keep her career or not (and means it!). She eventually ends up becoming a respected freelance journalist who travels around with her husband the internationally acclaimed dancer. | |
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In Mortal Kombat X, Sonya chose her career over spending time with her husband and daughter, causing their relationship to become quite strained. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Played with in "Fascination". After an argument with Keiko, Miles O'Brien told her that he had written a resignation letter from Starfleet. Keiko later told him that, while she appreciated the gesture, it wasn't necessary for him to choose between Stafleet career and family. | |
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Sadly averted in Archer. Malory prioritizes her career over her son, leaving Woodhouse to raise young Sterling. On the rare occasions when she did spend time with him, she usually tormented him in order to teach him a lesson. | |
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This was the central theme of an episode of Twice in a Lifetime. A man convinces his wife to give up her career to stay home and take care of their daughter while he climbs the corporate ladder. The result is that the marriage falls apart, the daughter grows up to be a delinquent and his career goes nowhere. When the guy is given the chance to go back in time and fix things, he realizes that his wife was great at her job and on the fast track for a major promotion. He convinces his past self that the right choice is for him to stay home and support her. In the new timeline, their marriage is saved, the wife is a successful corporate executive, the daughter had a happy childhood and is now going to college and he found his own happiness as a stay-at-home dad. | |
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Tim from The Boy Who Drew Monsters was once planning to go back to college and finish his degree, but after his son Jack Peter was born and later diagnosed with autism, it was decided that Tim would be a stay at home dad, since his wife Holly, as a lawyer, made more money than he did. Now Tim works as a caretaker for rich people's summer homes, a job that leaves him with plenty of time for taking care of Jack Peter. | |
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Part of Me: Mónica would often focus on her career as an international pianist more than her family, which became a major source of conflict between her family, causing her first husband to turn unfaithful and her oldest daughter to resent her. | |
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Son-Rise: A Miracle of Love: In a Rare Male Example, Barry quits his job as an ad executive so he can spend more time working with Raun. | |
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Helen of Daria deals with this too. She wants to be the perfect lawyer, mother, and wife but tends to ignore the latter two in favour of work and her daughters' needs are often brushed off. Helen is overworking herself by choice as a means of generating self-satisfaction and feels guilty for loving her work too much, but at the same time gives actual useful advice to Daria from time to time and is more generally involved in her children's lives than her non-workaholic husband. | |
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Regina from Under the Piano gave up a promising career in opera to raise a family. She admits that she did it because she was scared of success and thought marriage was the safer option and views Rosetta's mental disability as punishment for throwing away her gift. | |
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In Malcolm in the Middle, Lois and Hal married young and kept on having kids. Lois had ambitions of being a concert pianist but had to abandon them to take care of the children and work two hours a week short of full-time at a supermarket to help pay the bills. She is actually bitter about this, which manifests as meticulously controlling every single aspect of Malcolm's life to live vicariously through him, and possibly unconsciously sabotaging Dewey's piano contest to prevent him from surpassing her. | |
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In Miss Sloane, the titular character has long ago made the choice to focus on her career 100%. She doesn't even date, preferring to regularly meet a male escort in a hotel room for sexual satisfaction and for a brief fantasy of a relationship. | |
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The Knowledge: While studying for the legendarily difficult exam which London taxi drivers must pass, the candidates sometimes do this to the exclusion of everything else in their lives. | |
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A consistent theme in Sylvie's Love. Sylvie's father gave up his music career to start a family. Sylvie did not want to make Robert choose between family and career, so she didn't tell him she was pregnant before he left for a huge European gig. Robert later pays her back for it: he moves to Detroit by himself so she doesn't have to give up her dream producing job. The ending brings it full circle: Sylvie gifts her father's saxophone to Robert, and it's implied that he takes up music again while he and Sylvie balance being parents. |
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Justified in born of hell('s kitchen) when Foggy points Matt is already unable to balance his legal career as a lawyer and moonlighting as a vigilante, and now that he's officially claiming his son Peter's guardianship it will only lead him to crash and burn. Matt agrees and decides to drop vigilantism, since his son has psychological problems and needs all the care and reassurance he can get. | |
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This becomes an important plot point in Team Medical Dragon, where Doctors who has to take early leaves or long breaks in order to take care of their family gets a lot of flak from their colleagues, and this would severely hurt their careers. Dr. Katou swears off marrying and starting a family, because she wants to focus on her goal to reform the highly obstructive medical system in Japan. She used to have a boyfriend, but her dedication to her career prevents her from having any meaningful love life with him, so they break up, and he goes on to marry someone else. Dr. Fujiyoshi, a single dad, has to leave his young daughter in the care of her grandparents because his work takes up most of his time. He briefly considers leaving Meishin to be closer with his girl, but ultimately decides that his skills and talents are more needed in Meishin. Dr. Isaka's husband wants to have a child, but Isaka herself isn't too keen on the idea because she fears the repercussions that she will face from the other women if she takes a maternity leave. Dr. Beppu, another single dad, has to juggle between taking care of his patients and his sickly son. Choosing one would get him into trouble with the other. |
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Origin of a Non-Hero has a Rare Male Example alongside a straight version: All Might warned his protégé that he couldn't balance raising a family with being a Pro Hero. Despite this, Izuku and Ochaco get married, and both attempt to continue their careers. This doesn't go well, resulting in the pair divorcing, and Ochaco getting slammed by the media for 'breaking his heart'. | |
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Green Leaves establishes Might Dai as willingly rejecting the promotion to chunin and greater recognition of his skill as a martial fighter who mastered the Eight Gates, since he deemed his son needed a living father more than a dead war hero. Guy is deeply grateful and appreciative of his father's decision. | |
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Inverted, or something like that, in a two-episode arc in the second Sakura Wars OAV. The first episode centers around the other girls believing that Sakura is going to get married, which of course unquestionably means that she will quit her job. The second episode is Sakura, who is actually just attending a relative's wedding, moping over how she can never get married and have a family herself because she doesn't want to quit her job. The girls remark a few times on how glad they are that this is a "new era for women" where they can choose to have a career or a family (but not both). Well, it is the 1920s... | |
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Click: Michael wants a better life for his family and tries hard to get a promotion. But due to abusing the power of the magic remote, he set himself on "auto-pilot" which seemingly made him obsessed with career, estranging him from his family. | |
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Justified in Son of the Sannin. Being a ninja is a high risk occupation, so couples who have children will sometimes have one member start taking lower level missions or retire altogether to ensure that the kids will have at least one parent survive. Whether the husband or wife steps down varies from couple to couple (examples of both show up in the story). | |
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The Fragility of Bodies: Verónica starts missing family events when she starts to become more invested in her case, to her family's disapproval and annoyance. | |
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In the movie I Don't Know How She Does It, the principal character does have both a family and a career she loves, though she struggles to balance them both, implying she should choose (even though the company she works for bears responsibility for not understanding their employees have lives outside of work). Averted in that she keeps both her career and family, though one of her colleagues has an accidental pregnancy when before she was disinterested in anything outside her career. She keeps the baby and becomes enchanted with having a family the moment she gives birth. The film was panned for an abundance of stereotypes, and the title itself suggests having both a career and a family is a struggle principally women face. | |
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Discussed in Charité at War, which is settled in the early 1940s in Germany. It's a source of conflict between Doctor Margot Sauerbruch and young, pregnant doctoral candidate Anni: Margot tries to scare Anni away from her patient Lohmann by noting she's probably more of a candidate for a motherhood award than a dissertation. Contemptuously, Anni replies that Margot is not the role model she'll take — Margot has one daughter who's currently in a boarding school and doesn't plan on having more whereas Anni wants to quit working in a few years to raise a whole bunch of babies. They get over this when Margot empathizes with Anni's concerns about her baby. Anni winds up divorced, raising an only daughter alone and thus supporting herself. | |
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Aaron Hotchner of Criminal Minds might be a rare male example. His wife all but demanded he gives up his position at the BAU so he could be home more with her and their young son, Jack. He didn't, and they got divorced over this. And JJ is an aversion; as of season four, she has a baby and a boyfriend (later husband) who gave up his job (as a detective) to stay at home with their son. Unlike most crime shows, the characters of this series are constantly travelling to different states, which makes the situation even more difficult. |
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Get Smart: Max and Agent 99's cover story for the trip to Russia consists of them being a married, currently child-free couple, due to 99's persona choosing to focus on her career. Max makes a side comment that, 99 being Older Than She Looks due to Magic Plastic Surgery (necessitated by her cover having been blown on a previous op), she's biologically running out of time, which 99 does not take well: she snaps that it's a personal decision and not his, or her mother's. | |
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Bluestar in Warrior Cats. After she gets pregnant she realizes that having to raise the children will make her look like a less fitting candidate to be the Clan deputy than her rival, Thistleclaw. A bit unusual in that she decides to go for the career path instead of family, by giving away her children and making it look like they died in an accident. | |
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Stargate Atlantis: Played straight in season three, where we meet Jeannie Miller, Rodney McKay's sister. She had left a promising career in theoretical physics to raise her daughter, much to her brother's consternation. Jeannie makes it clear that she chose to be a wife and mother and is happy with her decision. But despite being a Housewife, she's still a scientist (and even occasional Action Girl) who solved a problem that had baffled McKay for years "in [her] free time, with fingerpaints." Subverted in season five when Teyla struggles to decide if she should rejoin Shepherd's team after her pregnancy and risk leaving her son without a mother, or if she should give up fighting for the freedom of the galaxy which is also very important to her. In true Action Girl fashion, she does both (it certainly helps to have a House Husband in these sorts of situations.) |
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Spanking the Monkey: When Ray tells his mother that she could go back to medical school, Susan admits to Ray that his father Tom didn't want any children, and gave her a choice of either becoming a mother or continuing her career; she chose the former. It's easy to see why she's such an unhappy person, but this makes her actions all the more selfish when she later seduces her own son. | |
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Mocked in an episode of Family Guy, in which there is a spoof of the "busy businesswoman who's busy but who doesn't notice her life is missing a little special something because she's so busy with business!" | |
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In The Girls Series by Jacqueline Wilson, there's a subplot where Ellie's father and stepmother Anna argue because Anna has launched her own business and doesn't have so much time to be at home. Ellie also accuses her father of forcing her mother to give up her career, even though he says that Ellie's mother wanted to stay at home. | |
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In Fantastic Four, Reed Richards runs into this now and then. While there is no question that he loves his family, he sometimes has a hard time showing it and tends to get so caught up solving scientific problems that he unintentionally ignores them. The Council of Reeds consists of alternate universe versions of Reed Richards who as a rule have raised themselves to Physical God levels through various means, and take on cosmic-level problems even more routinely than the Fantastic Four. They told the main universe Reed Richards the main difference between them is that adherence to human morality and social connections are holding him back from reaching his full potential. After a brief hesitation, Reed decided to turn away from the Council and return to his family. | |
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In Dragon Queen, Trava is conflicted between taking care of her tavern and going after her mother. | |
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For Life: Used as an excuse by Glen Maskins when he steps down as Attorney General-elect. (In fact he was pressured into resigning due to his unethical and illegal actions). | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: Agent Moira MacTaggert was married and has a son, but she got divorced because her priority is on her career at the CIA. | |
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Bad Moms: Averted. In the beginning, Amy Mitchel struggles to balance her family life with that of her career. Instead of choosing one or the other, Amy creates a balance between her two lives in addition to a third life - her personal life which had been nonexistent since she had kids - and ultimately becomes a much more happier, well-adjusted person. Of course part of the problem was that her bosses were making her work more than what was outlined in her contract. | |
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Proxima, with the chosen angle being the particular estrangement and strain brought upon a mother/young daughter relationship when the mother is an astronaut who has months of training to do without seeing her daughter and has to literally leave this world for a full year. | |
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The Big City: Arati, once a Housewife, gets a job because the family needs the money. They don't have a lot of choice about it, especially after Subrata is thrown out of work, but Arati still feels guilty when litte Pintu gets a fever while she's out working. | |
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Can You Spare a Quarter?: Graham decides to request extra vacation time, and eventually retires from his job. He needs the time to take care of Jamie. | |
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Sarah in Brothers & Sisters constantly struggles with this. Originally she was a working mom with her husband staying at home to take care of the kids. After her divorce, she lost the job with the family business, her ex tried to take custody away from her because of how long she works, and she increased the hours she puts in because she started working for an internet start-up. | |
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The Devil Wears Prada shows Miranda going through another divorce because her husband can't handle the amount of time she devotes to her job. Her two daughters are shown spending most of their time with a nanny. | |
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