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Fifty years on the reality still lags behind the rhetoric. Society hasn’t kept pace with the notion of ‘modern motherhood’. In an ideal world, work and family is about ‘co-parenting’. The word may sound horribly PC but it takes two to tango – in partnership, not battle formation. We shouldn’t be forcing mothers to give up their careers, nor should we be forcing fathers to stay at home. What parents need is support in the early stages of family life, with adequate post-natal leave, more flexible working hours and better-regulated childcare. The father’s profile needs to be raised and those men who courageously put family before career, need our wholehearted backing.
Fifty years on the reality still lags behind the rhetoric. Society hasn’t kept pace with the notion of ‘modern motherhood’. In an ideal world, work and family is about ‘co-parenting’. The word may sound horribly PC but it takes two to tango – in partnership, not battle formation. We shouldn’t be forcing mothers to give up their careers, nor should we be forcing fathers to stay at home. What parents need is support in the early stages of family life, with adequate post-natal leave, more flexible working hours and better-regulated childcare. The father’s profile needs to be raised and those men who courageously put family before career, need our wholehearted backing.
This isn’t the fantasy world portrayed by Madonna, Posh and Becks and friends, where women apparently have it all. It is a world where the needs of children are put at the centre of life and the lives and careers of mothers and fathers are not ignored.
For me, 21st-century motherhood should aim to free women from feelings of guilt and divided loyalty. Essentially, being a mother will never change, but in the future that must not preclude being a woman too.
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