Last week, a University of Cambridge study reported that most Britons believe that family life suffers if women work, prompting headlines about the death of 'Supermum'. But many mothers juggle workplace and home lives - and raise perfectly happy children. Others choose not to work.

 

Has society benefitted from working mothers or has it led to the problems we have today?

 

Can working mothers afford not to work in today’s materialistic world?

 

Should mothers be paid to stay at home to bring up children properly?

 

What do you think?

I'd like to hear someone's opinion on this, but i don't want to say anything because people might have a go at me :P . So i'll just bump this.

theres no reason why mothers shouldnt work if they want to, and bring up well balanced kids. mine seen ok...lol..

 

kids dont have to suffer, but of course in some cases they will.

Kids don't suffer is mothers work. I work, go to college and look after my child.

If you pay mothers to stay at home and look after their kids then the majority of women would sit at home all day.

Kids don't suffer is mothers work. I work,

 

they might in some cases.... in fact id suggest that in SOME cases they DO.

In them cases it is where the parent puts their work before their child.

Some people I know uses the fact that they have a child as a reason not to go to work.

Not every mother can handle it I think, but most can combine being a mother and work. Mine does it fine

Edited August 13, 200816 yr by Frank!

My mum worked and raised me, and no harm came from it.

My mum worked while I was growing up, it didn't affect me but it did my brother,he ran away a number of times

It is not necessarily the mother working that is the issue, rather the care for the child whilst she is working.

 

Many mother's chose to work regardless of the needs of the child, leaving them here there and everywhere to be cared for.

Small chidren particualrly need routine and security, yet over and over I see children who don't know who is picking them up from school, who don't know where they will be eating their tea that night.

 

If a mother is working evenings and the child is at school all day - no matter how good the babysitter - when does the child get to spend time with their mother. Time when mum isn't too tired or stressed or worried about doing the ironing?

 

Tho maybe I should replace mother with parent?

I mean no one ever criticises father's for working to provide for their children?

 

I, personally, feel that many mothers today work long hours desperate to provide mobile phones, designer clothes and all the lastest gagets they think their child "needs" when what the child needs more is security and time, routine and someone to make them feel safe.

 

 

 

But then if you can't afford to support a child and are not prepared to give that child your time why have a child???

Edited August 16, 200816 yr by ICR

Tho maybe I should replace mother with parent?

I mean no one ever criticises father's for working to provide for their children?

 

Exactly, there's plenty of single fathers out there who never seem to be vilified... No, they always get the sympathy vote because "ooh, his wife/partner must've died or left them... And ooh, it must be a struggle for the poor man to cope....". Whilst I absolutely despise the Chavvy "breeders" out there who do nothing but breed (often with multiple partners...) and sponge off the state, I would say that the majority of single mums are in a similar position to single dads - partners dying or buggered off and left them to it...

 

When my folks divorce, my mum had to work double shifts and stuff, sometimes weekends too, my dad had to work more as well.. Usually my auntie who lived nearby had to pick me up from school and took me home so at least I knew who picking me up.. During the hols, I would often go up to my aunties, sometimes staying over for a couple of days at a time... So there was certainly a continuity of care... It wasn't a problem, I was a smart enough kid to know that my folks had to work...

 

I don't see what's wrong about working mothers. My mother managed to work and raise 3 kids (including myself, of course) and we were good with it, cause we always understood it was for the better.