A DISADVANTAGE OF FEMINISM
Feminism has a lot to answer for. Traditionally, in most societies, motherhood was considered to be the prime, privileged, and respected function of women. Today, motherhood appears to be downgraded to a secondary or part-time occupation, postponed until a womans career allows it, or in permanent conflict with it. Women are excellent at multi-tasking, but juggling motherhood and a career means that neither are done as well as they should be.
In the bad old days, core values used to be instilled at the mother's knee, but today, children too often get their values from play-stations, computers, and television, where sophisticated advertisers, in a form of child abuse, teach children to be lifelong victims of consumerism.
Whereas mothers used to take a pride in feeding their offspring wholesome food, now they barely have time to stick a processed meal in a microwave, or serve up well advertised and packaged junk food of little nutritional value, with the result that children are now increasingly prone to hyperactivity, obesity, and a shorter life span than their parents. Jamie Oliver is finding that most kids can't tell one vegetable from another, and reject real. food for sweet, salty, gunge, full of additives and chemicals.
If you think I am wrong, look around you at the number of children who act in an anti-social manner, those who are ill mannered and abusive, the underage drinkers and drug users. Don't blame the kids, blame the parents, who put their own happiness before their duty to their children.
The tax credits and education available today produce well brought up children who are far superior to my generation, but they are, sadly, relatively few in number.
The breakdown of the family unit is a complex matter, but surely one of the prime reasons is that women have descended from their respected pedestal in the search for equality.
