DISRESPECTING
MOMS

Topics: Career; Mothers; Resentment; Respect; Sacrifice; Work

References: Psalm 127; Proverbs 30:17; 31:10–31

Eighty-six percent of mothers think they don’t get enough respect, and 80 percent agree that moms who stay home get even less. Even so, 77 percent of mothers who work full-time would rather stay home if they could. That’s according to a poll by Family Circle magazine.

Moms in both camps are defensive: 73 percent of those at home think working moms look down on them, while 66 percent of those who work feel the same way about moms who are at home.

The upside of the research is that while 70 percent of mothers say that being a mom is more demanding than they expected, 92 percent say it is also more rewarding.

—Melissa August and others, “Mother’s Day,” Time (May 6, 2002)