Letters | Sunday, 30 August 2009

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New mothers should reconsider career

A few days ago I was listening in to a radio station and I was impressed with the narrow-mindedness of women who cannot see the wood for the trees.
They were complaining that the government was not providing enough child-minding organisations soon after the birth of a child and they were constrained to leave their offspring with their parents.
In the first place what on earth do they want to hurry to work for? Some said for the money, others said that their boss would not hold down their job for long and that it would be hard to find another job.
But these mothers are not mindful of the strain they are creating for their own mother. Some phoned in that grandparents find it hard to cope with a child but their sense of sacrifice was too developed to refuse to do so. I hold very strong views against mothers that go out to work when their baby is a few months old. This is an egoistic attitude that no woman should burden her mother with. My view is that young couples today want the cake and eat it too. They have not been disciplined that everything in life has to be attained in stages, and that every step has to be calculated and every penny earned the hard way.
When young couples get married they should be prepared to give up their social life once the wife is pregnant, and lead a home life feathering the nest as best as they can, while the wife improves the home with her own handiwork. Instead, today young couples want late-night discos, dining out, trips abroad and similar jaunts that make it necessary for the future mother to carry on working.
The government is ruining young people by encouraging women to keep on working no matter what. Of course, the politician wants more income tax, more NI contributions, to be able to spend more money on grand buildings (a new parliament building?).
The ‘minister of ministers’ responsible for this attitude should not be trusted with governing this blessed country.

George P. Zammit
Mosta

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