One job is enough (Working Mothers in General)

Member Name: sympatic

Product:	Working Mothers in General
Date:	25/01/09 (91 review reads)
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Advantages: Should focus on what is important

Disadvantages: Need to make sacrifices something people are not prepared to do

For me I would consider being a mother a full time job in itself so how someone can also consider following a career is beyond me, surely the decision to bring a child into the world is a conscious decision and involves a commitment on behalf of both parents to raise the child and as such the idea that both parents would immediately go back to work and pass the child off to a child minder or nursery to care for is a strange decision.

Surely the decision should be that the lower earner is the one to remain home and care for the children, this makes financial sense and if that higher earner is the mother the the father can step in and provide the daily care for the child. After all we all want equality and not just with regards to equal pay.

Personally I would only consider having a child when I was in a position to stay at home and be a proper mother, from talking to friends it will probably be the hardest job I ever undertake and as such I will only consider it when I reach the point that I can no longer make a living from dancing and will be about to switch into the teaching field, for me I would not consider returning to work until my child enters full time education and then I can manage the work life balance better and not rely on child minders and other services to provide th nurturing a child needs.

In the current society we live in it seems people no longer think they should make sacrifices and that they can still run around like twenty somethings who are free and single spending money rather than being responsible parents.

Summary: Stay at home maybe