WHY A THIRD OF WOMEN WANT TO GIVE UP WORK FOR CHILDREN !!!!!

[Daanyeer]

Why a third of women want to give up work to look after their children By Sarah Harris

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... ldren.html

31st July 2009


More than a third of working mothers want to quit their jobs to look after their children, research suggests.
A further six in ten would like to reduce their hours to spend more time with their young ones, the Government-backed study found.
Less than a fifth said they would choose to increase their hours if there was good affordable childcare available.
The findings fly in the face of Government claims that women would want to go back to work if they could find decent childcare.
Jill Kirby, director of the Centre for Policy Studies think-tank, said: ‘Once again a survey is telling us that the Government’s got it wrong.
‘Continuing to push for more childcare and getting women to work more and longer hours is just not what women want.
‘It’s neither in the interests of children, nor indeed in the interest of women.’ The study was commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families and carried out by the independent National Centre for Social Research.
It provides detailed information about mothers’ experiences of working and their attitudes towards it.
Around two-thirds said they have to work because they need the money.
One in eight mothers who have returned to work in the last two years have done so because of their family finances. At the time of the survey, conducted last year, almost two in three mothers were in employment, with around a quarter working full-time.


Some 29 per cent of women with partners were working full-time, while 23 per cent of single mothers were.
The survey reveals mothers’ worries that they will be left behind if they take time off to raise children.
Some 16 per cent of mothers with partners and 12 per cent of single mothers said that their career would suffer if they took a break.
[In addition, a third of single mothers said they would feel ‘useless without a job’.
The report authors noted: ‘This probably reflects the findings from other research, which has shown that some lone mothers feel it is less socially acceptable for them not to work as they would need to rely on state benefits.’

Of those mothers who choose not to work, just over a quarter said they would not earn enough money to make it worthwhile.
A further one in ten said they had enough money already, and the same proportion said they did not work because it would affect their benefits.
The wide-ranging survey, which questioned around 7,100 parents with children under 14, found that one in five families are still struggling to pay for childcare.
One in seven say they do not use childcare because they cannot afford it. Parents now pay around £80 a week for a day nursery and £102 for a nursery, the survey found.
Sally Russell, founder of the parenting website Netmums, said many people had ‘fought’ for women and mothers to have the opportunity and choice to work.
‘In many ways we have gone backwards, because women don’t have the choice – they have to go back to work,’ she said.
She added that research conducted by Netmums two years ago had found that most women believe parttime working is the best option.
‘It is hard to find work that is paid well that you can do part-time,’ she said.
Figures released recently from the Office for National Statistics show that nearly two-thirds of married women hold down a job while bringing up a toddler.
It means that the proportion of working mothers with children under the age of five has doubled in the past 25 years.
The figures, based on a detailed survey of 160,000 homes, found that 62 per cent of married or co-habiting mothers with a child under five had either a full or part-time job in 2007.
Earlier estimates have suggested that the proportion of mothers with young children who go out to work was around 31 per cent in the early 1980s. The figure passed the 50 per cent mark in the late 1990s and hit 55 per cent in 2003.
Critics of the Government claim that the state benefits lavished on single parents at the expense of married and co-habiting couples are to blame for the trend.


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[HELWAA]

It's best to stay home with ur children till they reach 6yrs.

[military-mind]

^how old are ur ciyaal?

[zulaika]

It's best to stay home with ur children till they reach 6yrs.

helwaa just 6 years?

when children come into the equation...i will be a full-time mom till they finish high school.

[SummerRain]

It's best to stay home with ur children till they reach 6yrs.

helwaa just 6 years?

when children come into the equation...i will be a full-time mom till they finish high school.

PUt that in the contract, sidu ugu taashto.

[Morfeus]

Women should stay at home indefinitely. That's where they belong.

[SummerRain]

Women should stay at home indefinitely. That's where they belong.

You make it sound as if they are in prison by choosing to take care of their husbands and childres.

[zulaika]

It's best to stay home with ur children till they reach 6yrs.

helwaa just 6 years?

when children come into the equation...i will be a full-time mom till they finish high school.

PUt that in the contract, sidu ugu taashto.

its actually his idea...and we both agree.

[Morfeus]

You make it sound as if they are in prison by choosing to take care of their husbands and childres.

That isn't how I intended to make it sound. Women should stay at home to take care of their husbands and children. In return, men should provide their wives and children what they're required to provide.

[HELWAA]

It's best to stay home with ur children till they reach 6yrs.

helwaa just 6 years?

when children come into the equation...i will be a full-time mom till they finish high school.

Thats ur choice walaal but personally i could never be home for that long, working fulltime
is out of the Q but part time is perfect.

[Mizzy_Flame]

as soon as they're old enough for kindergarten, i cnt put my career on hold that long, money doesn't grow on trees you know

[SummerRain]

You make it sound as if they are in prison by choosing to take care of their husbands and childres.

That isn't how I intended to make it sound. Women should stay at home to take care of their husbands and children. In return, men should provide their wives and children what they need and required to provide.

Agreed.

Zul,

Mashallah, smart man ur hubby is.

[zulaika]

It's best to stay home with ur children till they reach 6yrs.

helwaa just 6 years?

when children come into the equation...i will be a full-time mom till they finish high school.

Thats ur choice walaal but personally i could never be home for that long, working fulltime
is out of the Q but part time is perfect.

i reckon you don't regard raising kids as "work" oh my dear helwaa must u line up with the femme-futile bunch...

[ms.naliaa]

Id stay at home with the kids too.

[Morfeus]

Id stay at home with the kids too.

If you add that to willingness to let your husband marry more, you'll be a rare gem.