Families with working mothers

Families with working mothers

Many families find they need two incomes to make ends meet. When farming went into an economic tailspin in the 1980s and1990s, many farming wives took jobs ‘off-farm’ to help keep the family afloat financially and even to avert family bankruptcy. In 1997 one rural woman, Kaylene McKinnon, started a small business in Dunedin, 130 km from the family’s Southland farm. Her husband Graeme and their children took on their share of household chores to make the venture possible.