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Originally Posted by JohnW
When we were infants, probably, most of our mothers were not at work all the time and spent quality time with us in those, our most impressionable, years. When we reached school age then our mothers had more time, if they wanted, to enter the workforce. I'm not trying to be sexist but babies need their mothers early on in life, it is when their personalities are formed and they learn the most about how to behave from the examples set. I am not against women in the workforce, they make an invaluable contribution, but, in my opinion, they have more important things to attend to, during the first five years or so, of their children's lives. Of course, since women's liberation, we have arrived at a stage where many families cannot afford to exist on one wage. Society has made the rod for its own back.
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I'm sure countries like Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Finland are just as "liberated" and have many mothers going out to work, yet they have managed to top the quality of life for children table. So I don't see how the two are connected. Rather, it's they way kids are brought up, regardless of whether the mother goes out to work or not.
A large and growing minority of parents in this country couldn't care less about how their kids turn out and, in fact, set a poor example to them with their own selfish, anti-social behaviour. This trend has been increasing for awhile now and is starting to have serious consequences for the UK. Go out into any city or town centre on a weekend night and you will see scenes of widespread yobbishness and casual violence that you simply do not see in other developed countries - something that, personally, makes me feel ashamed to be British at times. This is the end result of the poor upbringing that many inflict on their children in this country.