Severin,
If women in Australia wanted money to be mothers (and some do) then they probably shouldn’t be paid anything.

When 50% of women have no babies or only one baby, and when 70% of the women with babies don’t breastfeed for more than a few months (and the rate of breastfeeding in Australia is now below world average), and when so many mothers eliminate the father and live on welfare (and also plunge the child into welfare), then they wouldn’t be doing a good enough job to get any wages at all.

You wouldn’t even hire someone to be a mother if they were going to do all that.

Hey, Happy Mother's Day to all on the forum :)
(except Vanna- who is determined to ruin any thoughts of mothers).

I am off on holidays from work now, but when I come back I was thinking of beginning a thread about how we can give insults without actually swearing.

Vanna- what do you think of this one-
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits?

Hmmmm..... well maybe not :)
Cheers, Suze.

Suzeonline,
Have a good holidays. Get a tan and get your nails done. Your probably deserve it.

But if you think that mothers in Australia are actually doing a Really Good Job, then don’t go thinking of hiring yourself out as a mother.

Gawd, a bloke goes away camping and fishing with his mates for the weekend and comes back to a veritable cacophony of bleating from the kinds of woeful excuses for manhood that give the rest of us a bad name. Give it a rest, guys - maybe take the time to actually read Alan Matheson's excellent article.

Mother's Day has certainly moved far away from its worthy beginnings, but that's no excuse for the usual suspects to appropriate it as a platform to slag off at women in general.

Don't pay too much attention to vanna's drivel, which seems to have ramped up over the weekend. Before morphing into 'vanna', he was 'HRS', and before that 'Timkins'. He seems to be working himself up to yet another change of identity as a consequence of losing control of his hatred for women yet again.

C J Morgan,
Your the poster that can't stop abusing other posters. Could you nominate any post that you have ever made where you not called another poster a name or given them abuse.

No wonder you like feminists and teachers.

Motherhood in Australia is in an inglorious state when relevant statistics are reveiwed.

Unfortunately, there is now little to celebrate on Mother's Day in this country, and in many others.

I'm a mother but loathe the commercial hype that currently accompanies Mother's Day.

Now I must admit that I still have the cardboard Mother's Day cards that my kids made in kindy. But in the light of this article, I think we need new customs to make Mother's Day a celebration oriented in action.

Just imagine it - people handing out olive branches rather than chrysathemums, releasing white doves rather than balloons, and rather than passive recipients of choccies, having Mums march side by side with their kids in the city streets under banners decrying the atrocities and wastefulness of war. Mmmmm - sure beats feeding the commercial coffers flogging chocolates and flowers.