Your reading above gets my article completely backwards. The research shows that women who work outside the home have LOWER rates of depression than those who do not, even when we control for other factors, like pre-existing health problems that might make some women less likely to work. Someone needs a better fact checker or copy-editor!
The terms refrigerator mother and refrigerator parents were coined around 1950 as a label for mothers of children diagnosed with autism or schizophrenia. When Leo Kanner first identified autism in 1943, he noted the lack of warmth among the parents of autistic children.
