Stay At Home Mothers Better

[lightbulb247]

how interesting?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2296567/Scientific-proof-stay-home-mothers-benefit-children-So-coalition-Budget-tax-break-working-mothers.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2381647/Stay-home-mothers-happiest-Women-dont-return-work-suffer-feelings-boredom-worthlessness.html

[ummmm]

In an ideal world I'm sure there are many women who would prefer to stay home and care for the children but with the cost of living it's not always financially possible.

[jim360]

"Scientific proof" -- the Mail keeps using that word. I don't think it means what they think it means.

[lightbulb247]

i absolutely agree with that. In today's climate, yes women have to work, and i have nothing against that. If a women wants to work, than fine. I only put this up due to the times when many Muslims, like myself, have been criticized for saying stay at home mothers are good. Now it seems science is also starting to agree.

[naomi24]

Lightbulb, you haven't been criticised for saying that stay at home mothers are good - you've been criticised for supporting Islam's penchant for dictating a woman's role in life.

[friedgreentomato]

Why did you have to bring race into it?

[humbersloop]

muslims aren't a race fgt

[ummmm]

And there is the difference. I'm a stay at home mum because it suited us as a family. If I found a job tomorrow he'd be happy (not so happy about having to do housework though)

[naomi24]

FGM, he didn't bring race into it - he brought religion into it - and the reason he did that is because the OP is intended to make a positive point for Islam.

[chrisgel]

The Daily Mail and Science. Thats like Superman and Kryptonite.

Lightbulb - I'll assume that this post is in support of your claim that muslim women want to stay at home and look after the kids.
Does this view apply to single white mothers claiming benefits. I seem to recall they were a target of one of your previous posts.
As stated before. What about women who want or have a career. If for example a highly qualified woman doctor or barrister decides to have a child, is her expertise to be lost to society simply because a few troglodytes think they should stay at home.

[naomi24]

Oops ... what a slip up to make! I mean FGT - not FGM! Sorry.

[ummmm]

How long is maternity leave nowadays?

[jd_1984]

I was 27 when I moved out and at first I was like a fish out of water! Now I am settled at home, in a good routine and take in pride in what I have. My brother still takes his washing home at age 25. Now I have my own place, I could never go back but financially, I couldnt afford the deposit for a mortgage until I was 28, so I was fortunate they let me hang around!!

[jd_1984]

Please dis-regard everything I just wrote. I mis-read the title of the question and didnt read the article!!!

[friedgreentomato]

Apologies then religion!

[chrisgel]

//But the findings do show that married people and cohabitees are much happier than single people – which suggests that married or cohabiting stay-at-home mothers feel their lives are more worthwhile than working people.//
That's a really strangled piece of logic, anyone care to explain how the second sentence follows from the first?

[Octavius]

I quite like the fact that Mrs O is a stay at home mum, and we are fortunate to have the means to do so, and she is happy doing it.

We have a good friend who is a very successful lawyer commanding a wedgey salary and she has just decided to chuck it in to stay at home with her children.

[nannybooby]

Ummm maternity leave is 6 months paid and 6 months unpaid - I think you will find that its called paternity leave now as dads can take time out too.

[LazyGun]

For an article that proudly proclaims it has "the Scientific Proof" to support its hypothesis, the article seemed very short on science and non-existent when it came to "proof".

Opinion of the author, a few sideswipes at the Chancellor, Labour and Feminists, and constant references to a charity meeting with a little bit of namedropping as a kind of argument from authority.

The Article would be more accurately renamed "My OPINION is that sending mothers out to work harms children - and then I could have not bothered to read it :)

[pixie373]

My stepsister lives in France, and when she had her children (may have changed now). Mothers were paid to stay at home for the first 5 years, because it was believed to be better for the child. On the child's 5th birthday, all the benefits stopped, no matter what the circumstances were.

[lightbulb247]

//Does this view apply to single white mothers claiming benefits. I seem to recall they were a target of one of your previous posts.//

can you please show me that post. i seem to have forgotten about it?