Children denied right to full-time mothers
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.
At that time 56% of modern mums felt “in a constant state of despair,” with 88% fed up, exhausted and “pulled in too many directions.”
Mothers in the over 35 bracket were worst affected, with a whopping 92% feeling “wrecked” all the time and 90% admitting their relationship with husband and children was badly affected.
That report was published three years ago, guys. Has anything changed for exhausted mums?
Do children’s rights count for anything anymore? What about the child’s right to full-time mother care during the early years of his or her life?
The annual NGO Human Rights Forum, which I attended recently on behalf of Mothers At Home, would certainly not support the view that children’s rights no longer count.
Nora Bennis
President
Mothers At Home
16 Revington Park
North Circular Road
Limerick
