Keep Balanced

As new research suggests one in four employers believe training a pregnant woman is valueless, two women told BBC News Online how telling their employers their good news ended in heartache and losing their jobs.

'All I ever wanted was to be a mother'

How does one comment on such a news headline in today’s world? No matter what one says one will be on the wrong side.
I wonder how this woman can claim “I want to be a mother” and insist on her right to keep her career. Being a mother is more than a nine month incubation period. An other BBC news headline said that the way baby boys are handled influences their reaction to the big bad world later in life. What did it say? ‘Molly Coddle’ them I think it was and they will not tend toward violence later on. How can a mother Molly Coddle a baby when the kid spends most of its mother’s time asleep or at the day care? Speaking of which, who would take their expensive car to the cheapest slap happy mechanic? Yet they will take their kid “all I ever wanted was to be a mother” to the cheapest day care. Some how it sounds like “all I ever wanted was to prove that I can have a baby and a career to, I am superwoman!” Like the astronaut sitting on the launch pad thinking, “this thing was put together by the cheapest bidder”! What can women expect? The employer wants to get the job done and their biggest expense is often employees and there are a lot of employees out there including women who are there to get max dollars out of the job for minimum input.
On the other hand women do have a lot to bring to the work force. They are responsible for a lot of inventions, things that have improved life for us all. Women have skills that men will never have that are sometimes invaluable in a field of endeavor.
Oh how to find the balance? No I do not think that for a woman, being married is the equivalent of being a housewife. But how to balance a demanding career with a family? Course a lot of men have never found a way to do it either. I often wonder how a lot of pastors think that they are doing a good job of looking after God’s family, the church, when their own family is suffering ‘dad is on a 100 hr a week schedule’.