I always here that working mothers are selfish and I have always wondered why fathers are never mentiened.
2007-11-07 11:41:52 · 6 answers · asked by AGM120 4 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Parenting
Because of the way society has developed.
In the past the fathers all went to work to make enough money to support the mother and the child. The mother would need to stay home to support the child, and to breast feed when required.
Now in the present more mothers are going back to work straight away. It is the mothers who have changed from what they had been doing in the past, and so it is the mothers that some people choose to look down upon.
2007-11-07 12:02:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question! First of all, ALL mothers work whether they stay home or work outside the home. Yes, staying home IS work; if caring for children weren't work, daycare centers wouldn't charge up to $300 per week. That said, I guess it's because fathers don't get pregnant, give birth, and they're unable to breastfeed. Also, I think part of it is because nobody can nurture and raise a child the way his mother can. Rather than thinking of the woman staying home to raise the children (at least while they're young) as repressive, I think it's rather empowering. After all, I know that not a single other person in the world could care for my child the way I can - needless to say, that makes what I do (and other SAHM's) pretty important. Maybe those who look down upon working moms do so because they feel they are giving up the most noble, important job a person could do.
2007-11-07 20:29:33 · answer #2 · answered by SoBox 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because for the first 5 years a child looks to the mother for support. It is a mother that most children want to be with in the preschool years. Fathers do get looked down on for been work a holics. It is not an ideal world but as long as one parent is home with the child that is all that matters.
2007-11-07 19:51:35 · answer #3 · answered by Rachel 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Men aren't mothers, we are truly special. Women breastfeed their children.
There's nothing wrong with a stay at home father!!!
2007-11-08 09:07:37 · answer #4 · answered by Lydia 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because babies need their mothers. Theres been studies done- yes they do great with their dads, but they thrive and develop better with their mothers.
We naturally more nurturing, more intuitive, and better able to provide for their needs. Its our voice they heard all 9 months, our motions, our idiosyncrasies that they are most accustomed to. Its our smell and our sight that they are programmed to latch to from the moment of birth...
You cant change nature. No matter how much you want to degrade our sex, you cannot change the nature of its design.
2007-11-07 19:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by amosunknown 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Just an observation, I noticed that several people said mothers are better nurturers, but for some reason no one said fathers are better providers.
Why is that?
2007-11-07 20:34:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋