working women are bad mothers, is this true and why?

Answer 1

You imply that mothers who stay at home to raise their children are not working women. In fact, in many cases such women work harder than those who go out to a 9-5 job. I, for one, consider a stay-at-home mom a working mother, doing an extremely important job that largely goes unnoticed and is underrated in modern society.

Answer 2

Absolutely not. In today's world, a lot of times a woman has to work. Be she a single mother or not. Everything costs so much money that if you don't make all you can, you sink, and where does that leave your children?
I was a single mother of 6 month old twins, up until they were 5. Clearly, I had to work. Does that make me a bad mother? No I had to survive.
Some women also aren't the stay at home kind. We are all made up of different things.

Answer 3

Women have always worked inside or outside of the house. The idea of the modern housewife didn't really originate till the Twentieth Century.
Through out history very rich women had nannies to take care of their children.

I don't think being looked after by different people outside the home is a negative thing. My mum was a childminder for twenty years and was very good at her job. Her expereince and skills helped the children and helped the parents and enriched the lives of the children - it also taught the kids how to get along with other kids. Spending time with othe family members is also good for kids.

What can damage children is parents spoiling the kids because they feel guilty for working. Many women are made to feel bad because they leave their kids at work when really there is no need.
They then put up with brattish behaviour from the kids.

However if your child understands you work to contribute to society and to help the family then they should grow up to be proud of you.
Both parents should be around in the children's lives but that doesn't mean 24/7. If one or both of you has to work 80 hour weeks eveyrone misses out. Unfortunately economics sometimes mean people have no choice.

Answer 4

Absolutely not. Working mother's provide a positive role model for their children instilling a work ethic and showing that women can be strong and independent and STILL be women.

Most working mothers feel so guilty about being a working mother that they set aside "quality" time with their children, which "earth mothers" rarely do.

Working mother's aren't as bored with the tedium of a life shackled to the kitchen sink and living off of the state or a man, than stay at home mothers.

Of course, people are people, and every now and again you'll get a bad mother regardless of her employment status.

Answer 5

Because if the job is too long and too tiering.. they don't feel like doing anything else at home. After that the only conversations you can have with her are either quick ones or those that speak about her looong day at work. They tend to get careless, they cry a lot because they need the money, and because there are no more "special family moments." Thats just my case. I'm glad that Im 18 and at least I can try to keep the family together.. but Its not the same. The house is clean, Food is made, but the love of a mother and her attentions are incomparable. But it doesn't mean they're bad mothers

Answer 6

So not true, my mom worked when we were kids and she was an amazing woman and always found time for us as well as running a house and doing everything in it because we had a bone idle father, women who work do so because they basically don't have much choice if they want a decent carry on, some have careers that are important to them, working mothers aren't given the credit they deserve, if the government want them to stop working then pay them to stay home instead, I say good on them but also feel sorry for them because some of them are so exhausted they never have time for themselves.

Answer 7

No it's not true, I work full time and my kids do not suffer because of it at all - they are both very happy!! There are times I'd like to spend more time with them but bringing home a salary means that I can afford better for them and do more exciting things when I am with them! I am not a bad mother! Bad mothers are the ones that sit around smoking round their kids in pubs all day!!

I felt I had to add to this after reading somebody elses comments - I am a single mother and went on benefits for a while when their Dad and I split up but found that the money I got was not enough to provide nutritous meals for my children, tesco value fish fingers were not my idea of a balanced meal and so I went to work to earn more money to provide a healthier lifestyle for my kids, I spend £80 a week on nutritious food, not burgers and crap, you're more likely to find that it's the unemployed single mothers that have to do that cos the price of fresh produce is so ridiculously high! Also we do not go on holiday to such places as Benidorm because that would not benefit them in the slightest, we go camping so that they can learn about the importance and beauty of the environment, so without naming any names can u please get down off your high horse!!

Answer 8

this not always true because we have seen non working women that are bad mothers people are more prone to say that married women are bad mothers cause they figure that they may not have time to be with their children which is quite true especially if her work is a very challenging one .the point is that being a ba mother is not only tied down the fact that she works though these days it contributes largely to it as am sure you would have observed.

Answer 9

working women are not BAD mothers, they are just not mothers. you see. A child needs a mother during its formative years, and also, if you have a partner or husband who works, then you have the security to cook properley, therefore givintg the child neutirtion instead of all those pre pack chicken tonight thingies. My mother never worked, she was home when I got in, and the fire was on and toast and sandwiches. Then, later dad got home and we had our freshley cooked dinner around a table with the t.v. off. Same with my kid. Me and my partner, he was a muscician, I cooked from scratch, son never ill, last person in playground, as a lot of the other mothers went to work so ditched their kids off early, like a school playground baby sitter or sommat. However, The greed is what makes me sick. lack of home cooked food, in place the kid gets a nice Benedorm tan, and aburger. I made 10.000 pounds a year, just looking after the house i.e. decorating , plastering, laying gardens, creosoting, cleaning cooking, laying carpets, making blinds, curtains, and all sorts....still went out to the jazz and rock clubs at night. you see I do never understand why w woman who has a man who has a wage needs to to to some tedius job, just so the kid has a more expensive ball to kick around. Kids need there mum at home for stability, and a nursury a few times a week afew hours give mum time to herself...I am freedom fighter, that is why I did not work. Get it.

Answer 10

what is wrong with being a working mother? i don't think that there is anything wrong with them, i am pretty sure that one of the biggest reasons why these women are going to work is to provide for their children. I would consider a woman not to be such a good mother if she didn't go to work and stay home all day and depend on someone else to feed their child or children.