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“Impact of Mothers’ Work on the Wellbeing of their Children”
Showkat Ahmad Dar,* Sayed Iram Tabish,* Sumia Majeed Badam *
showkatahmad@cukashmir.ac.in
*Research Scholars, Department of Education, Central University of Kashmir (India)
Abstract
Mothers’ instructions reflect a very strong influence on attitudes, abilities and behaviour of
their children. Mothers give her children love, affection and care since birth. Child-care has
become a major issue in most of the countries of the world. It is a universal truth that
children require the love of mother the most. It has been proved through experiments and
researches that a major part of children’s’ cognitive, affective and psychomotor growth takes
place at an early age below three years. There are many researches which have proved that
absence of parents’ attention at an early age is very harmful. So working mothers, on the one
hand, can be positive role models for their children, and, of course, the income they earn can
improve their children’s lives in many ways. On the other hand, work can impair the
developing bond between mothers and young children, especially when the mothers work
long hours or evening and night shifts. The stress that they bring home from their working
places can sidetrack from their parenting skills, destabilize the atmosphere in the home, and
thereby introduce stress into children’s lives. When parents involve themselves in the
education process of their children the outcome is always as a positive and encouraging one.
The basic objective of the paper is to understand the concept of Working Mothers and to
examine its character and impact on the wellbeing of their children. The present paper
focuses on the needs, consequences and influences of the working parents within family
environment and also outline and discuss the working Mothers in the premises of a family
life, through the perspective of its impact on the overall child raising up and education,
which is crucial to his/her proper formation of children’s personality. For the present paper
secondary data was used.
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Keywords: Working Mothers, Impact, Children’s Well being,
1. Introduction
Mothers’ instructions reflect a very strong influence on attitudes, abilities and
behaviour of their children. Mothers give her children love, affection and care since birth.
Child-care has become a major issue in most of the countries of the world. The role of the
mother as an educator represents a crucial resource to the development of the individual
identity. Always in accordance to the biological as well as physiological relation of mother to
the child represents the first and reasonable part or segment of the child’s development. This
for the reason that mother assures child’s life, as she is the one who brings the child in this
world, and further on she raises them from being little towards reaching a total independency
in mature life. The mother’s function in this regard, has a very important role which as such
may be divided into two parts or directions: The first one is related to the child’s defence,
while the other one to the child’s overall development. Mother’s protection as a function
embeds several types of actions or types of functions. The first type is connected to the
physical protection of the child, which means that the child must be provided healthcare and
hygienic conditions, so that he/she could have a healthy life in a warm home environment in
every sense of the word, including here the ambiance where the child lives, which must be
well enlighten, a healthy place which offers the child to be showered, feed up and taken care
in general. The second type is the Psychological protection, which can be reflected through
the child’s emotional security and psychological protection, especially in moments when the
child feels it when the mother is next to him or her. Another group of activities in this regard,
are the maternal functions regarding the child’s development involving here the physical
development, the intellectual development as well as the emotional development of the child.
(Grancic, Radovan, 2006).Each child which grows up and is educated in the presence of
mother, for sure is expected to reach an appropriate physical, psychological as well as social
development. In this regard, these children have a much better appearance, they look happy
and they enjoy the childhood in general. They are communicative and as such they are ready
to cooperate. For this reason, mother’s love and care to the child, is full and well completed,
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and as such is often accepted by other members of the very family. This type of cultivated
love and affection can be qualified as a key condition for an appropriate development of the
children in a given family. The children experience the physical as well as psychological
effects of the mother, and as such they are taken as model which influences their further
development during their emotional stage of development of their moral values as whole.
This element of the so called child’s identification, the child embeds it in his/her personality
for years on and on, throughout his/her total lifespan. It is planted in their character as well as
temperament, and as such it is reflected through his/ her attitudes and thoughts in interaction
or behaviour comportment with the society in general(james,1982). However, depending on
the economic, social as well as emotional limitations, mothers, nowadays have a variety of
opportunities to be able to reach or make real their mother’s role, which helps the child’s
overall development and enables mothers to enjoy the fact of being mother.
2. Impact of Mothers’ Work
Parenting is a very big responsibly and the parent child interaction plays a vital role in the
development of child. The behaviour, mannerism, ethics and level of confidence in a child is
the total reflection of the style of parenting of a child. In other words, proper parenting
prepares a child to face the word boldly and accept the challenges and opportunities in his
life. It is a universal truth that children require the love of mother the most. It has been proved
through experiments and researches that a major part of children’s cognitive, affective and
psychomotor growth takes place at an early age. There are many researches which have
proved that absence of parents’ attention at an early age is very harmful. So working mothers,
on the one hand, can be positive role models for their children, and, of course, the income
they earn can improve their children’s lives in many ways. On the other hand, work can
impair the developing bond between mothers and young children, especially when the
mothers work long hours or evening and night shifts. The stress that they bring home from
their working places can sidetrack from their parenting skills, destabilize the atmosphere in
the home, and thereby introduce stress into children’s lives. When parents involve themselves
in the education process of their children the outcome is always as a positive and encouraging
one. (Ardita, 2016). It is usually believed that employment of a mother has certain effect on
the overall growth and development of children. The first five years are very crucial for the
cognitive, affective and psychomotor development of children. The teenage period of
