Children denied right to full-time mothers

SO we have yet another survey (Irish Examiner, June 14) exposing the plight of mothers who work in paid employment outside the home. When are our politicians going to get the message?

For how long more must ordinary, decent family men and women put up with waffle from ministers and chief executives and high-powered national framework committees who couldn’t care tuppence about exhausted mothers of new-borns who survive on less than four hours sleep at night and still go out to work during the day.

A survey in 2002 warned that governments were making too many demands on mothers working outside the home, to the detriment of their health and welfare.