If someone's looking for anything that that involves the word "easy" nursing school is not for you regardless of BSN or ADN. It really depends on the person not the amount of time you want to dedicate or how many children one has. I completed my BSN with a yound child and all but went crazy. I had a friend who completed her ADN with small children at home and went equally crazy. However, I plan to further my education with a MSN and she prefers to remain a "floor nurse" or whatever you want to call it. As far as practice goes, in our institution, one cannot differentiate between a ADN or BSN. I work with wonderful ADN nurses who never took theory, ethical nursing, etc. but are highly involved in research and are very up to date in current trends. So once again, it's all difficult but well worth every minute regardless of what program one chooses