So-called liberation for women has left young mothers struggling desperately to balance life and home, and under so much pressure that they can no longer fulfil either role properly… The focus on work has, of course, enabled many women - including myself - to enjoy fulfilling careers. But the pendulum has surely swung too far…

What is happening now is that, thanks to a mix of political and financial pressures, mothers are being forced into the career marketplace long before they are ready to leave their children - and before their children are ready to be left…

Raising a child is hard work. It takes time and cannot be shoehorned into a few minutes at either end of the day. And ideally, it takes both a mother and a father…

As a result, children have no understanding of the meaning of stable relationships, nor do they find it easy to accept authority.

Source: The Daily Mail
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