What are the Truths about Parenting in Households with Working Mothers?
There is a study about parenting done in Britain recently that finds that working women who leave their children on a daily basis while going out to work, risk raising children who come to have poor eating habits and poor exercise tendencies. It is called the UK Millennium Cohort Study. The research draws from a study of nutritional and physical activity habits of more than 10,000 children under five.
So what is it that these children do that distresses the researchers so much? The researchers found that mothers who worked even part-time, came home to find that their children resist fruits and vegetables more. They have a worse television or computer habit too, when compared to children of stay-at-home mothers. These children are often seen to use passive entertainment like computer games and television more than two hours a day - far more than what stay-at-home moms would allow.
In the end, one does have to wonder about why the studies about parenting choose to villanize the women, the mothers who choose to work, but end up neglecting their children. What is wrong with blaming the father for neglectful child-rearing, one wonders. Why can’t women have their dreams like men do, and yet have a cared for set of children that both the parents take turns to rear well.
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