do children of working mother get neglected ??????

Answer 1

It is difficult to blame mothers for their inability to develop and maintain relationships with their children as strongly as in previous decades. The pressures of a full-time career coupled with full-time mothering may be too much for anyone to handle wholly and effectively. It is for this reason that responsible parents seek the assistance of day care centers, professional baby-sitters, and so forth. But it is also for this reason that the relationship that exists between mother and child today has changed so drastically.

Although:
Children, especially young children, communicate largely through affective signals, for example, cries, smiles, eye contact, touch. When mothers are not around much and fail to respond to these signals, children first become very upset and, if no parental response is forthcoming, ultimately cease to signal. In either case, they both fail to learn to modify signals in ways that lead to the development of mature communicative skills and also learn to behave in increasingly aversive ways. Indeed, the more upset they become, the longer it takes them to recover, that is, the longer they remain distressed. Consequently, if working mothers were initially ambivalent about responding to child signals, they could be expected to become more reluctant after their children became upset. At that point, interactions are likely to take on the negative quality. Thus early neglect of infant signals can have a progressive and deteriorating effect on the development of the parent-child relationship. And such neglect is indeed common among working mothers. In addition, children's signals are often tied to their need for help in managing their emotions. Thus children turn to their parents when they are hurt, angry, sad, frightened, and so on. If their mothers are too preoccupied to respond to these feelings, they may ignore precisely those signals that imply the greatest need for maternal involvement. Indeed, "simple" requests for food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention can be fulfilled by other adults such as nannies, caregivers etc; But this seriously alters the mother-child relationship and places many aspects of that traditional role on the career-child relationship instead. Because the desire for affection and comfort can only be satisfied by attachment figures (i.e., parents), it is more subject to defensive biases. This neglect in parents' own developmental history.

Answer 2

It really depends on the mother and the child as well. If the child can adopt with the one parent, and if the child is given good values at an early age, neglection doesn't play a role. If both parents works the child can still be neglected if the child is not given the necessary parental education especially when the child is young.

Thank you very much for asking this question, because I think you already knew the answer. This question may wake up all irresponsible parent or parents to take a good view if their little ones who would be soon be big ones, and may Bless them if they make it in this world, and God Bless you for asking this common and yet important question.

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Answer 3

I think it depends. If you dont have enough income to provide for your children then thats neglect. If you cant put a roof over your childrens head then thats neglect too. nowadays familys need more than one income to survive. my husbandand I work different shifts. that way one of us is always home and our kids are never without a parent. I feel that the economy is neglectful to familys if you ask me. remember when we were kids and our parents could get by with one income. the government is just greedy and thats neglect towards our childrn. not mothers who work hard so they can give their children a decent life.

Answer 4

I agree and disagree with that. I agree because what mother or father for that matter would not love to stay home and watch there child learn, and see all the silly cute things they do,. I would love to stay at home and cook and clean and watch my son do everything. I disagree because not all family's or single parents can afford that. my fiancee works full time from 4 in the morning until about 2 in the afternoon 7 days a week, i work from 3 in the afternoon until 9 30 at night 5 days a week, one of us is always home with my son ( he is his step dad) but then sometimes i think it may be better to put him in a day home because he is an only child he thinks EVERYTHING is his, we have been trying to teach him to share and he will only if he is in a group of kids. so i know i don't neglect my son as he is extremely happy, but we both have to work so he can eat and have a place to call home, i would love to be at home full time with him but i cant afford that and that goes with many parents.

Answer 5

No I do not think so. I have 4 children and have worked the whole time they were little. They came out fine. Now days it takes both parents to work if you are going to make ends meet. Just make sure you do spend time with them no matter how tired you are. On your days off do something special with them like coloring, sitting on the couch and watching a movie and talking. Always make sure you listen to what they have to say. By doing so you do not neglect them.

Answer 6

I think it sucks being a working mum when all i want to do is spend time with my kids. I try to take every available time to spend time with my teenage daughter cause i dont want us to drift apart weve been going to the pool 3 times a week we get chatting there. But i agree that alot of working mums neglect there kids.

Answer 7

Negative ghostrider. In fact they are more social, daycare. I was in the military and took care of a little one and she was spoiled rotten. She is independent and smart. She loves to laugh. She is well mannered and gets along well with others. She loves telling people about my job and all while I was in. Seperations were hard but we kept in contact and I had no problems when I returned.

Answer 8

I dont think they do, as long as you are leaving your kids with someone u can trust, i would have said yes if you were working 24/7, we always want whats best for out kids,if we sont work they dont get............ take care

Answer 9

If she's a single parent, a little bit yeah, but never intentionally.